Consciousness (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, October 04, 2010, 18:12 (5143 days ago) @ David Turell

I've chosen this thread because we don't know how consciousness forms or arises, and there are atheistic scientists who feel they are masters of the game as they study the brain in a semi-disconected way with MRI's that have no way of showing the actual synapses involved along axons in the billions. Sam Harris has declared that 'science can determine human values' in his new book, The Moral Landscape, here reviewed by Marilynne Robinson, in the WSJ. As a neurophysiologist, with a bunch of MRI's under his belt, his atheist super-ego (and I don't mean the Freudian form) tells us that he is the best judge of human morality. Ha! Like Dawkins, does a jumbo ego lead to good philosophic judgment? I don't think so.-http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520062380030080.html?KEYWORDS=Marilynne+Robinson