Consciousness
Apr 06, 2004Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How does Ken know that John is a conscious b...
Prominent philosophers go head to head inthisNew York Review of Bookspiece. Thomas Nagel writes a critical review of Daniel Dennett's new bookFrom Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. Front and center in Dennett's picture is the difference between the "manifest image"—a colorful world filled with ideas, experiences, colors, sounds, emotions, and ordinary objects—and the "scientific image"—a more barebones picture of atoms, subatomic particles, and forces. In essence, Dennett wants to reject the manifest image altogther; he claims that consciousness is an illusion. Nagel is not convinced, and he explains why in the article.
Is this manifest image we have of the world really mistaken? Is consciousness an illusion?
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Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How does Ken know that John is a conscious b...
哲学家们一直关注的是思想。意识是什么?表示吗?
人类是有意识的,台球不是,电脑也不是。但这三个都是分子的集合,不是吗?
Modern science tells us that the mind is just the brain working. But science cannot yet tell us how consciousness, rationality,&nb...
What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? Monists believe that there is only one substance or property in the Univ...
Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How does Ken know that John is a conscious b...
哲学家们一直关注的是思想。意识是什么?表示吗?
人类是有意识的,台球不是,电脑也不是。但这三个都是分子的集合,不是吗?
Modern science tells us that the mind is just the brain working. But science cannot yet tell us how consciousness, rationality,&nb...
What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? Monists believe that there is only one substance or property in the Univ...