In article <1994Jan27.225240.1462 at news.yale.edu> YHADEISH at biomed.med.yale.edu
(Yukiharu Hadeishi) writes:
>I suppose it's a tad more astonishing than I'm implying: according to the Book
>of the Month Club review, Crick does identify the anatomical location for the
>soul.
Quick, call the National Enquirer and the Weekly Word News... :-)
>Can't remember where exactly he said it was, now... an area that has
>been shown by PET scan to be differentially active when a person thinks about
>moving but doesn't actually move. Sounds like supplementary motor cortex
He talks some about the anterior cingulate wrt consciousness and motivation;
can't remember offhand whether his discussion involved PET studies. Other
consciousness (and, in particular, visual awareness) candidates that he mentions
are the back-projections of the visual system, the pulvinar, intralaminar, and
reticular nuclei of the thalamus, and high-frequency oscillations and
synchronised firing (these last as a solution to the Binding Problem).
Most of the book is a general-audience discussion of the visual system and
of experimental techniques, not a discussion of consciousness in particular.
(And here I always though that the soul lived in the pineal gland :-)
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Matthew Belmonte mbelmonte at ucsd.edu
`The Bohemian Kingdom' - Risley Residential College for the Creative and
Performing Arts, Ithaca, New York
