“More than evolution, more than inexhaustible arguments over God’s existence, the real fault line between science and religion runs through the nature of consciousness.” NYT
Tag Archives: consciousness
Are We Really Conscious?
“How does the brain go beyond processing information to become subjectively aware of information? The answer is: It doesn’t…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.” NYT: Are We Really Conscious?
on the necessary and sufficient conditions for consciousness
panpsychism is not exactly a new theory but neuroscientist christof koch has been refining the idea with three decades of research and concludes that consciousness arises within any sufficiently complex, information-processing system. relatedly, “google no longer understands how its “deep learning” decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos.”
Stories of You
to the best of our knowledge aired a program, “stories of you”, which basically amounts to different perspectives on the philosophy of self best described as “self as a narrative center of gravity”. excellent stuff, except for the lack of mention of dan dennett who championed the concept since the mid 80’s and wrote, “The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity”