ramachandran, director of ucsd’s center for brain and cognition, tells seed magazine about his view of consciousness. not much new here, but i really liked the graphic (credit: dave casey).
he says that we need to be approaching the qualia problem from both the reductionistic (how do neurons create awareness of sensations?) and hippie-istic (how does self arise from qualia, maaan?). to him, you can’t get one without the other.
i guess we’ll see… but will we, really?
