How does the brain produce a thought? Or experience a unitary, whole, synchronized perception of a cup of coffee? For neuroscientists, this is the Mount Everest of questions. We have a look at one possible theory (that a thought is like lots of little neurons singing together in harmony) and then visit neurologist Christof Koch to ask: who conducts the brain chorus? Koch thinks he knows, and he tells us of the cutting edge work of one of science’' great thinkers, Francis Crick...an inquiry which lasted until his dying day.
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I'm listening to this episode right now. I am so frustrated! They refuse to leave the bounds of neuroscience to solve this problem. Why? Why should neuroscience know about the higher levels of consciousness when they specialize in studying the brain? Don't they know that their cousins in psychiatry have already discovered that memory survives body death? And that thousands of people knew this before anyway? So it can't all be in the brain. It just can't. They'll never solve it with a brain-only model of consciousness. Never.
Being a person who is listenign to the podcasts with out any bend whether religous or no, i believe they have every right to say if they think its "holy" or not. it isn't like they were saying hey you atheists out there its all God, no there were two sides on the pod cast, one said they thought it was holy and they other said he didn't think so. there was no reason to say hey you doing the pod cast you can't say what you think.
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