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...think of anyone who thinks that," objects Patricia Churchland, a philosopher at the University of California, San Diego. "Of course, there is an evolutionary basis for the mind. The tricky part is to figure out how it all works...
...also provided a window on the human brain, letting scientists watch a thought taking place, see the red glow of fear erupting from the structure known as the amygdala, or note the telltale firing of neurons as a long-buried memory is reconstructed. "What's so exciting," says Patricia Churchland, a professor at the University of California at San Diego, "is that the philosophical questions raised by the Greeks are coming within the province of science...
Does this mean that science is on the verge of understanding consciousness? Not necessarily. San Diego's Churchland compares the search for answers to a canoe trip into the wilderness. Every time the canoe rounds a bend in the river, the landscape changes. She believes the journey has barely begun and that there are bound to be surprises in store. Certainly, science has finally started to shed light on a puzzle that is not just abstract and philosophical, but intimately familiar to anyone who gives it a moment's thought. But as physicist Penrose has suggested, the notion that...
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