Evolution of Complex Behavior, Perception, Cognition, Consciousness & the Brain | Paul Cisek | 107
Mind & Matter
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Is There a Mind in the Brain?
The way that many people talk about the brain is we sort of completely parse it into these different functional segments. And I think what you're saying is that's a poor way to think about it. So can you talk about that a little bit more and maybe reiterate the monkey-reaching experiments we were talking about?Yeah. Well, I mean, it's more general than those experiments. But at that point, it was already kind of too late. What happened is these concepts of a perceptual system and an action system that plays out the wishes are retained. Those who are retained just replace them with a physical thing. It's so ingrained in our way of thinking that it was impossible to let
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