Category: Consciousness
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Iain McGilchrist, matter & consciousness.
‘If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t’.~ Emerson Pugh This video is an interview with Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist, Oxford literary scholar and author of one of my favourite (and most challenging) books….a voluminous read… ‘The Matter with Things’. Here is my review…
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Music of the hemispheres.
I have been thinking about this video a lot today. Lucy is a 13-year-old girl who lives in the UK. She has autism, and severe learning difficulties and is blind after being born with cancerous tumours in her eyes. You are about to watch her play Chopin’s Nocturne Op.9 No.1 Wow.What is going on here?……just…
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Is your houseplant conscious?
Contrary to what it is commonly assumed, plants seem to be capable of many of the cognitive abilities traditionally assumed to be exclusive to animals. Hence, the behavioral evidence thus suggests that plants could qualify to be sentient organisms. Segundo-Ortin, Miguel et al. This article recently published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science explores…
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Things are not as they seem.
Take a look around you. Everything you see, hear and touch is only an illusion constructed in your head.Don’t believe me? Read on…. “Take a simple object; something right at hand: a pen.Hold it in your hand; look at it; tap it on the desktop, and listen to the sound. Now, consider your experience of…
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Are fish conscious beings?
This article published in Aeon looks at the question of sentience in fish. In me at least, when I stop and think about it, this raises a creeping feeling of unease. There is an increasing body of evidence that challenges our sapiens-centric claim to being the consciousness boss of things around here. If even fish are…
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