Herbert Calhoun
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Is there no one home in our brain? (opens the original)
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An essay review of Professor Thomas Metzinger's book: The Ego Tunnel: The science of the mind and the myth of the self The author begins this book making a provocative claim: that we will never solve the hard problem of consciousness (the problem of how consciousness can arise from a purely physical object like the brain) unless we first come to grips with the simple proposition that there is no such thing as a self, no indivisible entity that is us, neither in the brain nor in some metaphysical
Absorbing the hard problem of consciousness (opens the original)
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An essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka's The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness Absorbing the hard problem of consciousness This well-documented, comprehensive, and deeply scholarly work presents a bold new theory that unlimited associative learning (UAL) lies at the core of the hard problem of consciousness. The idea driving the theory is the fact that no matter when "subjective experiencing" may have emerged in biological history, it had to
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