http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/12/taking-the-neurotrash-out/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/12/taking-the-neurotrash-out/#comment-5221 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:38:51 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/taking-the-neurotrash-out/#comment-5221 It all sounds much too “Big Brotherish” for me.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/11/12/taking-the-neurotrash-out/#comment-5220 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:59:12 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/taking-the-neurotrash-out/#comment-5220 I agree with your general view of Tallis’ article: He’s got some good criticisms, but applies them a little too widely.
But I have a different slant. I think he is spot on with his criticisms of work on consciousness but shoots too far in drawing conclusions about work on ethics. Work that Hauser has done on the biology of ethics seems to me very worthwhile but I have never understood what we’re supposed to learn from the neuroscience of consciousness.
In the case of consciousness, we don’t even know what we’re looking for and on some theories of what consciousness amounts to (like Dennett’s), any search for it is probably doomed.

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