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Yet more on consciousness
“Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon; it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written about it.” —Stuart Sutherland in...
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On knowing one can do no better
When friends asked me what I was writing this book about, I told them it was not about consciousness. After the age of 50, many neuroscientists feel they have sufficient wisdom and expertise to set...
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Half of Autechre on intuition and will
“Disagreements only happen when you enter the conscious world, when you try to consider things.” “Sometimes you have to accept that you’re a product of your environment and no matter what input you...
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“Conscious” reasoning
Read this: For us, however, a key difference is that only conscious reasoning can make use of working memory to hold intermediate conclusions, and accordingly reason in a recursive way (Johnson-Laird,...
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Understanding unconscious processes is easy…
“Six decades ago our psychoanalytically oriented predecessors wrestled with the problem of formulating a credible account of the unconscious. Paradoxically, perhaps, having gathered such convincing...
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