What is Mind?
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What is Mind?
- The challenge posed by phenomenologists remains. The brain and nervous system are perceived, dissected, and experimented on by and through the minds of scientists: the brain is inside a mind and consciousness . Not vice versa.
from Why Computers Can’t Be Conscious by Peter D'Autry
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"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors).“
from Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
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More than 20 years ago, two philosophers, Andy Clark and David Chalmers, wrote a journal article that opened with a question: “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” Now, that question would seem to have an obvious answer, right? The mind stops at the head. It’s contained within the skull. But Clark and Chalmers maintained that
... See morefrom The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
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