In article <31B1EC8F.6D3D at U.Washington.edu>,
"William H. Calvin" <WCalvin at U.Washington.edu> wrote:
>You might want to take a look at the Forum that George Johnson (FIRE IN
>THE MIND recently, IN THE PALACES OF MEMORY earlier, working on a bio
>of Gell-Mann currently) runs at the New York Times web site:
>http://www.nytimes.com/comment/index.html>The general topic is Mysteries of the Universe, subsection
> The Mind-Brain Connection
>There's a lot of discussion of the brain-related science stories that
>the NYTimes runs, as well as more general topics. John McCarthy (he who
>invented the term "AI") has been mentioning the need for self-awareness
>in robots. The Tucson consciousness conference is a topic, and some of
>us have been discussing the Penrose-type confusions of levels of
>explanation and mechanism, common to those outside neuroscience.
I think Penrose is "out of his mind" like a lot of physicists who want to put quantum
mechanics everywhere!
His ideas are simply grotesque in neurosciences!
Cl
>Fogging memories via head injury and electroshock treatments was even
>discussed at a mechanistic level.
>>You have to register and get a password. But, if you are using the
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