What I wanna know is when neurotransmitters acquired a first-person POV.
--- Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> >> 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
>
>
> ============
>
> 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
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