Where consciousness isn't
Tuomas Manninen in Metapsychology:
The key assumption behind the science of consciousness is that consciousness is an internal process that occurs in the brain. Noë’s chief goal in [his book, Out of Our Heads,] is to show that this highly questionable, yet unquestioned assumption, has led the consciousness research astray; in brief, the search for consciousness has focused on where it isn’t. Noë opens by challenging this assumption, and offers an alternative picture. Instead of characterizing consciousness as an internal process (like digestion) Noë proposes a picture which takes consciousness to be an activity (like dancing).
This is a topic that fascinates me: what is consciousness and where and how does it occur? The scientific community has generally accepted that the mind is merely “what the brain does,” but that view seems to be shifting.
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