Mosaka's List: consciousness

• This not-quite-true story is that the brain produces consciousness. Most scientists accept this as dogma
• he fact is, most doctors, and most scientists today, are confusing the fact that consciousness and brain activity are related (which they certainly are) with the opinion that the brain actually produces that consciousness.
• he conundrum of how the brain relates to consciousness is often called by the nickname "the hard problem." As Edward F. Kelly and Emily Williams Kelly, researchers in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, point out in their book Irreducible Mind, "In recent decades brain researchers have begun 'opening up the black box,' deploying a formidable array of increasingly sophisticated clinical, pharmacological, biochemical, genetic, neurosurgical, electrophysiological, and behavioral methodologies in efforts to understand what brains can do and how they do

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