From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 17:27:51 MST
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Clinton O'Dell wrote:
>
> I have a hypothesis that consciousness is nothing more than memory
> exchanges in the brain along with a pattern matching and pattern
> searching (guessing what will come next) processes.
For those of you interested in this, there is a good article in
the December Scientific American, "How the Brain Creates the Mind"
by Antonio R. Damasio (pg 112). He is the author of "Decartes'
Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain", and "The Feeling
of What Happens", two books that are now high on my list.
He discusses the "Movie in the Mind" aspect of consciousness
and the fact that our "self"-concept may arise as an emergent
property of the brain recreating the sensory environment.
For those of you who are lacking something to do (do we have
people like that on this list?), the Dec. Scientific American
and the 2 Dec. 1999 issue of Nature (in a supplement, "Impacts of
forseeable science"), are both jammed with stuff of interest
to us - Robots, Genomes, Space, Climate, etc. I'd list both
of them as "required reading" for future extropians.
Robert
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