BS 173 Exploring the Unconscious Origins Of Certainty
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Concept of Emergence and Modularity in the Brain
In the case of consciousness, we know from a conceptual standpoint that it has to arise from a hidden layer of neurons. You cannot tell from the output what happened in the hidden layer. So we need the concept of emergence, which he describes on page 59 of on-brain certain as consciousness intentionality, purpose, and meaning all emerge from the interconnections between billions of neurons That do not contain these elements.
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