Example: the utter foolishness of reductionism (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, October 17, 2014, 02:35 (3690 days ago)

This professor knows all the mechanical and neurological mechanisms of how the brain works at the base level and interprets the eye's stimuli, and doesn't appreciate how seamlessly that provides up with our conscious experience. Thank god I am not his student. I don't suffer fools easily.-http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/are-we-really-conscious.html?ref=opinion&_r=2&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Opinion&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=article-"In this theory, awareness is not an illusion. It's a caricature. Something — attention — really does exist, and awareness is a distorted accounting of it."-Whew!!!