Was Max Planck right about consciousness? | Patricia Churchland, Brian Greene, Amanda Gefter and Laura Mersini-Houghton
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is Consciousness a Hard Problem?
We don't know what consciousness is. We do knowapit enough about the brain to at least say with confidence that not everything that happens there, and therefore gives rise to cognitive or mental processes, to the mind, is a quante mechanical self. For example, your rings are nongenial and we know that conta mechanic is lenier. Perhaps neural translition in the mind. O esediniar process might be explainable with the conta mechanics, but definitely not not the neural firings which would eventually give rise to the corrudations that amanda was talking about. Ifif i were forced to take a position, i'ld say that consciousness is
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