Philosophical Speculations

How does this brain stem model fit with corpus callosotomies where there are apparent split subjects but no brain stem division?

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...

Neuroplasticity isn't total magic. Hemispherectomy patients are semiblind.

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?

Astra, exactly. At best strong emergence hypotheses can isolate what consciousness isn't, and always assume their conclusion, physicalism.

All hypotheses of strong emergence are question-begging non sequiturs.

David Copperfield.

The world would be better if all these videos were posted with transcripts.

Decentralized, diverse ant colony behavior is more impressive.

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