my mind on books

This article “Consciousness as Content” by Gary Johnson uses the term ‘neuronarrative’ for neurologically or cogsci-oriented fiction, which here I’d earlier termed “neurofiction.” The novels discussed in the above article are Thinks . . . by David Lodge and Richard Powers’s Galatea 2.2: A Novel.

At Metapsychology Online Reviews, in a new review today of Susan Blackmore’s ‘Conversations on Consciousness,’ reviewer Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst suggests that consciousness has some features of a “wicked problem” – a concept from the planning literature. There is no definitive formulation of the problem, no stopping rule, and no idea of what would constitute a satisfactory solution to the problem.

Courtesy of philipkdickfans.com:

When we say that we’re conscious, then, we’re doing something: we’re talking (or signing or writing) and/or imagining to ourselves about both our external and internal environments, and our own public and private behavior.

“Consciousness is nothing but a word” by Henry D. Schlinger at eSkeptic

Nature Of Consciousness: How Activity Of Single Neurons In Human Brain Reflect Conscious Perception
ScienceDaily (2008-02-19) — Scientists have made a significant step into the understanding of conscious perception, by showing how single neurons in the human brain reacted to certain images. This line of research could lay the foundation for developing a neural prostheses which could read commands directly from the brain and transmit them to bionic devices such as a robotic arm that a patient with limited mobility could control directly from the brain. … > read full article