Wiring the human brain (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, April 15, 2012, 02:28 (4607 days ago) @ David Turell


> > > > Note that this also implies that the difference between man and other primates is a difference of degree in terms of structure and not of kind.
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> > > Structure is one thing, consciousness is entirely different. Please separate the concepts. They are very different.
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> > The hypothesis that consciousness arises as a direct consequence of the brain's structure has yet to be verified/refuted. 
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> > There is no logical basis to claim they're different unless you're talking about an "inner" analysis (analyzing your own mind) and an "outer" analysis (analyzing PET scans of your own brain.)
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> I am talking about inner analysis. The issue is the difference between animal consciousness and ours. They have similar brain structure. Why is our consciousness so different? So vastly different. And I agree. No one knows how consciousness appears or where it is based, expecially in view of NDE's.-Despite Adler, I'm still with dhw. I'm not convinced that aside from abstract language, the differences are that profound. Even squids have been shown to have the capacity for inference and syntactical structures based on body language. -Nietzsche often warned to be "aware, the seduction of language!" Adler should have read more Nietzsche!

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