Re: Dennett on neurons

2011-09-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sep 28, 9:48 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: > On 27 Sep 2011, at 20:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > Yes, thanks. > > > It's interesting that he goes from showing how neurons plausibly have > > micro-agency, to then insisting in part 7 that we must reduce > > consciousness to-unconsciousness. > > He e

Re: Dennett on neurons

2011-09-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Sep 2011, at 20:18, Craig Weinberg wrote: Yes, thanks. It's interesting that he goes from showing how neurons plausibly have micro-agency, to then insisting in part 7 that we must reduce consciousness to-unconsciousness. He explains this already in his oldest book "brainstorm". I agree

Re: Dennett on neurons

2011-09-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
Yes, thanks. It's interesting that he goes from showing how neurons plausibly have micro-agency, to then insisting in part 7 that we must reduce consciousness to-unconsciousness. To me, all it takes is to realize that it's not only what the neurons are doing physically that matters, but what the

Dennett on neurons

2011-09-26 Thread meekerdb
Craig will like part 6 of Dan Dennett's Harvard lectures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnbSj1OMA8w&feature=related Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com.