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Old 30-March-2008, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich View Post
Would it be fair to say then that you, Grant, Dennett, and myself all agree that consciousness is not to be found by studying the brain?
No, for myself I would say that we do not "find" consciousness anywhere other than in a dictionary. But what we can do is try to understand what imprints whatever process inspired that definition leaves on various philosophical, artistic, religious, and scientific image spaces. Restricting to the scientific subset, we can see how the scientific methodology can be applied to various other "slices" of that concept. One of those slices could be behavioral-- another could be looking at the brain. But the grand-daddy of them all is simple instrospection, as that process which was used to define the term in the first place.
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