OUT OF MY HEAD. ON THE TRAIL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulati on, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out across the universe like butter on bread. Of course, most philoso phers believe that our experience is locked inside our skulls, an unreliable representation of a quite different reality outside. Co lor, smell and sound, they tell us, occur only in our heads. Yet when neuroscientists look inside our brains to see whats going on, they fin...[Leer más]