Thursday, July 15, 2021

Dr. Mark Solms says the Cortex is not the seat of Consciousness in the Brain

He thinks instead that we neuroscientists should consider taking consciousness down a level from thoughts to emotions. While destroying just a tiny area of the recticular brain stem does bring about automatic coma. This still doesn't tell us anything about consciousness it tells though that we can brings the brain/body into that state of automatic coma and we go completely unconscious Consciousness on the other hand is subjective in nature and does have physicality to it as well. Picking emotions just one feature of Consciousness is not enough to enravel the mystery of how consciousness is somehow produced by the brain. Dr. Mark Solms is just another Materialist scientist who instead of saying Consciousness is seated in the Cortex of the Brain it is seated Reticular core of the brainstem.

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