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According to the model, our brain subconsciously generates competing theories about the world, and only the "winning" theory becomes part of consciousness. Is that a nearby fly or a distant airplane on the edge of your vision? Is that a baby crying or a cat meowing? By the time we become aware of such images and sounds, these debates have usually been resolved via a winner-take-all struggle. The winning theory--the one that best matches the data--has wrested control of our neurons and thus of our perceptual field...
...Chalmers, once we know which kinds of data become part of consciousness, and how they earned that privilege, the question remains, "How do data become part of consciousness?" Suppose that the physical information representing the "baby crying" hypothesis has carried the day and vanquished the information representing the rival "cat meowing" hypothesis. How exactly--by what physical or metaphysical alchemy--is the physical information transformed into the subjective experience of hearing a baby cry? As McGinn puts the question, "How does the brain 'turn the water into wine...
...Sileni who decorate the big classical landscapes of his middle years are inert and stereotyped. He didn't have the temperament for the sensuousness Poussin put in his classical scenes; Corot's nymphs are just studio models. In Bacchante with a Panther, 1860, the girl teasing the big cat with what appears to be a dead starling looks like Mlle. Goosepimple, thanks to the gray French skies above and the damp earth under her bottom...
...screened for heart disease, people are subjected to an exercise stress test or injected with radioactive thallium before undergoing an X-ray. Now research shows that an ultrafast CAT-SCAN can do the job just as well. The scan takes speedy "stop motion" pictures of the heart that spot coronary artery-clogging deposits...
...GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT LIBERALS ARE AT FAULT FOR nearly everything that is wrong with the world today, from welfare to your cat's fur balls. But you would think that liberals could not be blamed for Pat Buchanan. Yet some conservatives have even tried to pin the rise of this fiery right-winger on liberals. They note that Buchanan bases some of his screwy ideas on the work of an obscure economist, whose name he picked up from an article by the liberal journalist James Fallows. They observe that Buchanan's concerns about layoffs and middle-class insecurity (though...