> On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> But forward movement does require
>> getting rid of both the homonunculus and the cartesian 'soul.'
>
> I don't think I disagree, but why? What's gained? Doesn't it make us
> all seem like bots? Not that we aren't, but still.
>
> Doug
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Neuroscientists got rid of homunculi a long time ago.
There is no necessity in deploying reductive redescriptions of human activity/behavior, nor is anything gained by asserting that the brain makes a mistake when the claim that 2 + 2 = 5 is made. As if we could ever find the guilty neurons. Or did the mitochondria do it????????
Ian