Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained

[riezer]

People with coma and bedridden. If you ask them questions, their brain parts can answer back as shown in functional MRI. One coma patient was told to imagine the inside of her house, parts of her brain pertaining to spaces light up and many others like this. They have a mind but they are unconscious. Now the 1 million dollar question, does this ART neural nets and Bayesian brain model you mentioned above got to do with the unconscious mind only? Or does it include the mechanism the creates the owner of the self and self-awareness? If the latter, any strong argument why it should be so?

I think split brain experiments give strong indications that neural nets are sufficient for self-awareness. Anyone disagrees?

 

[bohm2]

Assuming unification within present-day physics/neuroscience is unlikely, can anyone envision what type of revision in physics is required for unification to proceed? I mean can one work backwards by establishing what kind of properties qualia have and how these can be realized in a future or present-day phyics? What are some of these properties of qualia? Non-locality? Unity?