Consciousness Is The Smallest Player In The

In The Traditionally Taught View Of Perception, Data From The Sensorium Pours Into The Brain, Works Its Way Up The Sensory Hierarchy, And Makes Itself Seen, Heard, Smelled, Tasted, Felt - "perceived." But A Closer Examination Of The Data Suggests This Is Incorrect. The Brain Is Properly Thought Of As A Mostly Closed System That Runs On Its Own Internally Generated Activity.

All Creation Necessarily Ends In This: Creators, Powerless, Fleeing From The Things They Have Wrought.

Reductionism Is Not The Right Viewpoint For Everything, And It Certainly Won't Explain The Relationship Between The Brain And The Mind. This Is Because Of A Feature Known As Emergence. When You Put Together Large Numbers Of Pieces And Parts, The Whole Can Become Something Greater Than The Sum.

To A Space Alien Or A German Shepherd Dog, Two Humans Would Be Indistinguishable, Just As Attractive And Unattractive Space Aliens And German Shepherd Dogs Are Difficult For You To Tell Apart.

I Always Bounce My Legs When I'm Sitting.