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Imaging And The Question of Consciousness - Paper

Submitted by rdanfort on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 4:18pm

NBS Senior Seminar
brain
complexity
culture
diversity
philosophy
science

Discussion Paper – Imaging and Consciousness

Pick up a newspaper, and you will discover an amazing thing: we are living in the future. The for-real future of jet-packs, ray-guns, and mind reading. Our revolutionary imaging technology can determine what memories you are accessing, what shapes you are seeing, the degree to which a decade of happy hour has smoothed your prefrontal cortex, and whether or not you associate the face of John Edwards with a particularly debauched collection of short stories. So it would seem, anyway.