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> I've always been under the impression that consciousness is actually a bunch of brain activity competing for attention and that one thing at a time is selecte
by justinpombrio 8y ago
> I've always been under the impression that consciousness is actually a bunch of brain activity competing for attention and that one thing at a time is selected/blessed to be the highlight of one's attention.
I think this is also the scientific consensus. "Consciousness and the Brain" is a good overview of recent studies on consciousness, and piecing together the results. I've just started reading, but so far I'd highly recommend it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_and_the_Brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_and_the_Brain
- hprotagonist 8y agoThe scientific consensus on consciousness is that there's no consensus. See, e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5641373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5641373/
- justinpombrio 8y agoRight: certainly not for many of the hard or big-picture questions. The experiments described in "Consciousness and the Brain" that I've read so far have been very conservative in their conclusions, however, and I think they mostly avoid the sort of criticisms you linked to.