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

2011-09-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sep 28, 9:48 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be 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.

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