Tag: neuro science
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Any theory that bypasses the nervous system in order to account for the existence of minds and consciousness is destined to failure. The nervous system is the critical contributor to the realization of minds, consciousness, and the creative…
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Intelligence is the capacity to do the right thing at the right time. Being intelligentas humans think we aremay give us new ways of being conscious, and some forms of human and animal intelligence may require consciousness, but basic conscious…
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There is no one way the mind works, because the mind is not one thing. Instead, the mind has parts, and the different parts of the mind operate in different ways: Seeing a color works differently than planning a vacation, which works differently…
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No brain, never mind.
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The only point of learning from past events is to better predict future events. That’s the whole point of memory. It’s not just a library where we file away everything that’s happened to us. And the reason why we need to keep a record of…