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varkam

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Tue May-13-08 09:26 PM
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5. David Brooks writes something worth reading? Say whaaat?!?

I'm not exactly sure what Brooks means, though, when he says that neuroscience has shifted away from a die-hard materialism.

It hasn't.

The question of whether or not consciousness arises from purely physical properties of the brain is, for all scientific purposes, a dead one. It's pretty clear that it does. The only question that really remains (and might remain for quite some time) is how exactly that occurs.

Thanks for posting, Warpy! :hi:

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