We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
#JoniMitchell – The Circle Game

#Consciousness in about #2000 words and a Joni Mitchell song

https://neurontosomething.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/the-problems-with-consciousness-your-brainon-the-circle-game-round-one/

#Blindsight #BrainStimulation #epilepsy #HardProblem #NeuralCorrelates #neurology #SplitBrain #DavidChalmers
#DanielDennet
#GiulioTononi #PatientHM
#JosephLeDoux #Gazzaniga #NedBlock
#PatriciaChurchland #PaulChurchland
#WilderPenfield #blog #writing

Unrelated, but it seems #DanielDennet ’s gone.

He was the first writer I became able to read again after a few years of not being able to process prose.  Not that I agreed with absolutely everything he said but he did it with impressive intelligibility.  Could do with more like him.

> We can’t live in a world with what he calls “counterfeit people.”.. Artificial people will always have less at stake than real ones, and that makes them amoral actors, he added. “Not for metaphysical reasons but for simple, physical reasons: They are sort of immortal.”
.. We need strict liability for the technology’s creators,

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

In the profile of #EmilyMBender, #DanielDennet makes me think of #TheCorporation, #LegalPersons and then Lewis Mumford's #MegaMachine