On Sunday 06 May 2007 09:47, Mike Tintner wrote: > And if you're a betting man, pay attention to Dennett. He wrote about > Consciousness in the early 90's, & together with Crick helped make it > scientifically respectable.
Actually, the serious study of consciousness was made respectable by Julian Jaynes in '76 with the publication of Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Psychologists at Rutgers I discussed it with at the time assured me that Jaynes had rock-solid credentials (he was at Princeton at the time), and so that even though nobody thought the theory was right, there was a sea-change away from thinking it was silly to theorize about at all. Note that Libet's famous work was mostly published in the early 80's. Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
