
Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why

Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness as Divine Spark. Consciousness as electromagnetic field. Consciousness as functional cluster. I explored it all. Wegner thought it was an executive summary. Penrose heard it in the singing of caged electrons. Norretranders said it was a
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Mainstream science instead holds to its belief that consciousness is produced by the brain, without being able to explain how. It also assumes that consciousness has no effect on the physical world.