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...Ricky McGinn could be one lucky man. Thanks to a fortuitous collision of timing and what many will interpret as political expediency, the convicted murderer and rapist will live to see another sunrise. Scheduled to die Thursday in what might have been just another routine Texas execution, McGinn was saved, at least temporarily, by his governor's abrupt change of heart. Thursday afternoon, hours before the scheduled lethal injection, George W. Bush sanctioned a 30-day stay of execution for McGinn...
...psychiatrist Allan Hobson, as well as many philosophers. Their answers have ranged from the optimism of Tufts University's Daniel Dennett, who says consciousness will one day be understood as nothing more complicated than a kind of biological software routine, to the outright pessimism of Rutgers University's Colin McGinn. He regards consciousness as "the ultimate mystery, a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel...
...though, Damasio admits he hasn't explained consciousness completely either. Perhaps, he muses, so-called mysterians like Rutgers' McGinn have it right, and a full understanding of consciousness and its origins--like that of life itself--will always elude us. But, he insists, "it's not justified to say we'll never understand consciousness just because there is an explanatory gap right now." Rather, he sees the quest as a beginning. The brain, he firmly believes, holds answers to questions that we have not yet even thought of asking...
...doing things set higher standards for those who worked around him; he brought out the best in us," said Noel McGinn, professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and an Institute Fellow, emeritus at HIID...
Chalmers isn't a hard-core mysterian like McGinn. He thinks a solution to the consciousness puzzle is possible. But he thinks it will require recognizing that consciousness is something "over and above the physical" and then building a theory some might call metaphysical. This word has long been out of vogue in philosophy, and even Chalmers uses it only under duress, since it makes people think of crystals and Shirley MacLaine. He prefers "psychophysical...