Looks like that may have been solved. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Nicely done. Pretty much proves the point of the article.
Certainly consciousness can be so defined with respect to our, possibly limited, experience of it. But in dismissing out-of-hand the possibility of less complex systems (down to sub-atomic particles) having non-zero qualia, I think you are in danger of being too rigid in your opinion. I find Roger Penrose (Emeritus…
But that wikipedia page doesn't reinforce your staunch opinion so much as it highlights my questioning of it. Also, not having a good definition of consciousness, isn't it wrong to assume that any discrete physical phenomena are totally devoid of it? I would have thought that the only reasonable view to take would be…
I think many of the early pioneers of quantum mechanics would disagree with you there. Several of the big-hitters grappled long and hard with the role of consciousness and wrote at length about it. There's a reason the word 'observation' is used rather than 'collapse' or 'split'. To say "There's nothing special about…
Do you mean the "Art of Landscape" series? If so, there are loads on Youtube.
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The retina and optic nerve are considered part of the brain, in the same way the spinal cord is.
It's actually rascist for anyone to see anything rascist in that. Oh, the irony.