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"While the easy problem looks at correlations between brain activity and different states of consciousness — something that the global workspace theory is begin
by reader5000 16y ago
"While the easy problem looks at correlations between brain activity and different states of consciousness — something that the global workspace theory is beginning to elucidate — the elusive hard problem of how these patterns of electrical activity could ever give rise to our subjectivity may never be fully solved. Dr. Laureys’ correlation of DMN activity to patients in a coma or vegetative state starts to show how the electrical patterns of the brain relate to “conscious” and “pre-conscious” states according to the global workspace theory, but doesn’t really come close to accounting for the richness of our inner lives."
So, no.
- Confusion 16y agoExactly, and that conclusion could already be drawn after a few lines. Measurements on brain activity are never going to explain consciousness, because measurements on falling rocks don't explain gravity either.
- metamemetics 16y agoYeah by that quote this guy is still completely dualist and a bit silly.. Of course you will never explain how these patterns of electricity give rise to a seperate metaphysical consciousness. The patterns of electricity ARE consciousness. Any complex system could be said to have a degree of consciousness, just very few complex systems have a qualitatively HUMAN-like consciousness because they are not capable of demonstrating high-level analogical reasoning.