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- From: daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Consciousness and the soul
- Keywords: consciousness, soul, mental models, psychology
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.115548.25971@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:55:48 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.015049.18024@ousrvr.oulu.fi>, kempmp@phoenix.oulu.fi (Petri Pihko) writes:
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- |> In an article by Susan Blackmore (in New Scientist, 1 April 1989), where
- |> Libet's work is also described, she tells us about some more radical
- |> views: Consciousness is just an illusion, an afterthought to help us.
- |> The concept of self, which is the brain's mental model of itself, separates
- |> "me" from "the rest of the world".
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- A similar view of the role of conciousness was expounded in some detail in
- Daniel Dennett's recent book "Conciousness Explained". I would recommend this
- to you as an excellent (well written, well researched, authoritative) book
- on this idea.
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- Dan Crow
- daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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