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Dickinson and beyond

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 4:25pm.

Yep, lots more to come.  Key point is that Dickinson and Ramachandran (and others) put it ALL in the brain, not only the "unconscious" but the "conscious" as well.  And, if so, everything we are consciously aware of, is a construction that might be different if the brain were different, a "story" in the sense that it could be otherwise. That's a pretty powerful idea that we'll talk more about on Tuesday.  And then on Thursday we'll have a look at the brain constructs things, which turns out to be very much a function of both unconscious and conscious processes.  For a quick preview, see /exchange/grobstein/olympiad07

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