Stephen Morse (Penn): Law and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind. Jairus Grove (Hawaii): Something Darkly This Way Comes: The Horror of Plasticity in an Age of Control. Christof Koch reviews Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind by George Makari. 2300 years later, Plato’s theory of consciousness is being backed up by neuroscience. Alex Rosenberg on why you don’t know your own mind. Man missing most of his brain challenges everything we thought we knew about consciousness. Michael Graziano on how consciousness is not mysterious — it’s just the brain describing itself to itself. George Johnson on how consciousness is the mind messing with the mind. Do we need an ethics of consciousness? Derek Beres wants to know. Zombies must be dualists: Sean Carroll on what the existence of zombies would do to our philosophy of mind.
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories; in short, your brain is not a computer. Ray Kurzweil: In the 2030s, nanobots in our brains will make us “Godlike”. Robert Lawrence Kuhn on the Singularity, virtual immortality and the trouble with consciousness.
