http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/science/why-consciousness-not-brain As Rutgers University philosopher Jerry A. Fodo flatly states, “Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious. So much for our philosophy of consciousness.”Others suggest that there are no mental states at all, such as love, courage, or patriotism, but only electrochemical brain fluxes that should not be described with such inflated language.Some of the oddest experiences I recall are attending conferences where one speaker after another employs...
Friday, February 22, 2013
Oxford Philosophy professor David Chalmers About Consciousness
Posted on 6:52 AM by Unknown
Many researchers in the artificial intelligence community believe the ultimate nature of consciousness resides in algorithms, those calculational programs by which computers do their work. If an algorithm for human consciousness exists, those who take the extreme view of this position speculate it may reside in the actual formula itself, the numbers as it were, and not necessarily in its interaction with the brain.In this scenario, a robot running the human consciousness algorithm would be no less conscious than a human brain running the same program....
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Were Does Consciousness Reside By Dr. Eben Alexander
Posted on 8:25 AM by Unknown
A new book by neurosurgeon, Dr. Eben Alexander, in which he describes his conscious awareness during seven days while in a coma under the care of neurosurgeons at Lynchburg General Hospital in Virgina, challenges the common understanding that consciousness is the domain of a healthy brain function.He says,In 2008, while “doctors weighed whether to discontinue treatment, my eyes popped open,”Alexander writes. Rather than experiencing seven lost days of no conscious awareness, with “my higher order brain functions totally offline”, he describes a...
Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness?
Posted on 8:11 AM by Unknown
Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but when it comes to the inner world of the mind, it has very little to say. And when it comes to consciousness itself, science falls curiously silent. There is nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any other science that can account for our having an interior world. In a strange way, scientists would be much happier if minds did not exist. Yet without minds there would be no science. It is easier to explain how the universe evolved from the Big...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
John Eccles (neurophysiologist) Views
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eccles_(neurophysiologist)#Philosophy...
Monday, February 18, 2013
Feel Like a Butterfly, See Like a Bee? - The Mystery of Perception
Posted on 12:19 PM by Unknown
https://www.deepakchopra.com/blog/view/1064/feel_like_a_butterfly_see_like_a_bee?__the_mystery_of_percept...
Sunday, February 17, 2013
What is the difference between fainting and sleep?
Posted on 12:22 PM by Unknown
Q: What is the difference between fainting and sleep?M: Sleep is sudden and overpowers the person forcibly. A faint is slower and there is a tingle of resistance to it. Realization is possible in a faint and impossible in sleep. Source: Conscious Immortality, Conversations with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Recorded by Paul Brunton and Munagala Venkartaramiah and published by Sri Ramanasram...
Friday, February 15, 2013
Mind And The Brain By Mario Beauregard
Posted on 1:53 PM by Unknown
http://www.harpercollins.com/author/AuthorExtra.aspx?displayType=interview&authorID=30...
Open Unsolved Problems
Posted on 3:22 AM by Unknown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_problemsFew areHard problem of consciousnessOrigin of water on Earth...etc...
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