What makes up your mind?
December 3rd 2007 22:49
Making up your mind
"With consciousness, there is no agreement on anything," says Giulio Tononi, professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, "except it's very difficult."
"We're waiting for our Einstein."
There are 100 trillion meeting points, or synapses in our brain. So how do we make up our minds?
The smartest robots are not so smart as a 2 year old.
Beyond the basics of perception and motor skills, the human brain has a premium feature: consciousness
."Cogito, ergo sum" – I think, therefore I am Descartes said, about which philosophers make so much of a living, is as far as it goes when we wish to understand how the mind works.
The trouble is no-one can find it, hunt as they have.
No scans, no slices, no autopsies can find any trace of it and yet We ALL know it exists.
Does the mind really exist of do we just imagine it.
Joel Achenbach from the Washington Post poses these questions.
Theatre of the Mind
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Comment by Dianna G
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Isn't that an EXCESSIVE shared delusion?
Comment by katyzzz
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I'm sure we all have a mind, what I think happens is that they can only see the effects of the mind on the brain and try to analyze that without realizing what it is.
When it comes to modern imaging we are just at the tip of the iceberg and for some things there will never be an explanation in our terms.
That's the way I see it, I'm sure they see the effects of the impulses but not how they work.
katyzzz...I'll be over to say hello soon.