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- Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Brain stem as source of consciousness
- Replies: 25
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Re: Brain stem as source of consciousness
How does this brain stem model fit with corpus callosotomies where there are apparent split subjects but no brain stem division?
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Brain stem as source of consciousness
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3146
Re: Brain stem as source of consciousness
Remember, just a cut to this region and consciousness is cease in the subject. The obvious question is that if this leads to permanent coma and corporeal death, how would any researcher know, beyond just subjective opinion, that there is no ongoing experience for the psyche transitioning into a tra...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Brain stem as source of consciousness
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3146
Re: Brain stem as source of consciousness
Neuroplasticity isn't total magic. Hemispherectomy patients are semiblind.
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Brain stem as source of consciousness
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3146
Re: Brain stem as source of consciousness
If the brain stem is sufficient for conscious life, why/how did the other 97.4% of the brain evolve at great metabolic cost and childbirth risk?
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Brain stem as source of consciousness
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3146
Re: Brain stem as source of consciousness
Astra, exactly. At best strong emergence hypotheses can isolate what consciousness isn't, and always assume their conclusion, physicalism.
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Brain stem as source of consciousness
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3146
Re: Brain stem as source of consciousness
All hypotheses of strong emergence are question-begging non sequiturs.
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:03 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: starling murmuration
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1858
Re: starling murmuration
David Copperfield.
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Deepak Chopra and Bernardo Kastrup on Planetary Evolution
- Replies: 3
- Views: 617
Re: Deepak Chopra and Bernardo Kastrup on Planetary Evolution
The world would be better if all these videos were posted with transcripts.
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: starling murmuration
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1858
Re: starling murmuration
Decentralized, diverse ant colony behavior is more impressive.
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Deepak Chopra and Bernardo Kastrup on Planetary Evolution
- Replies: 3
- Views: 617
Re: Deepak Chopra and Bernardo Kastrup on Planetary Evolution
Are those the world's most valuable eyeglass frames?