"Ray Scanlon" <rscanlon at wsg.net> writes:
> This paragraph leaves me confused. Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists
> should not appear in the same sentence anymore than paleontologists and
> creation scientists should. The neuroscientist studies the nervous system,
> the cognitive scientist studies the soul (mind). The only neuroscientists
> who consider the soul (mind) are a quirky few who look for the NCC (the
> neural correlate of consciousness.
As a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (a joint
program of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon
University, comprising 115 faculty, staff, and graduate students), I
find these statements somewhat puzzling. I would say that your
"quirky few" amount to a couple thousand at least.
-- Bill
