"...[the mind] seems to act independently of the brain in the same sense that a programmer acts independently of his computer, however much he may depend upon the action of that computer for certain purposes[...] I worked as a scientist trying to prove that the brain accounted for the mind and demonstrating as many brain-mechanisms as possible hoping to show how the brain did so. In presenting this monograph I do not begin with a conclusion and I do not end by making a final and unalterable one. Instead, I reconsider the present-day neurophysiological evidence on the basis of two hypotheses: (a) that man’s being consists of one fundamental element, and (b) that it consists of two. In the end I conclude that there is no good evidence, in spite of new methods, such as the employment of stimulating electrodes, the study of conscious patients and the analysis of epileptic attacks, that the brain alone can carry out the work that the mind does. I conclude that it is easier to rationalize man’s being on the basis of two elements than on the basis of one." The Mystery of the Mind : A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain. Penfield, Wilder. Princeton University Press, 1975.
"...I cannot believe that this wonderful divine gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other, unimaginable conditions. At least I would maintain that this possibility of a future existence cannot be denied on scientific grounds." The brain and the unity of conscious experience. Sir John Carew Eccles. London: Cambridge University Press, 1965
Цитаты из остальных рекомендую найти самостоятельно, они вполне доступны в сети. Если вам, конечно, это нужно здесь и сейчас. Сейчас у меня просто нет времени. А моё предложение глянуть трёхминутный видеоотрывок остаётся в силе...D
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Date: 2012-04-25 11:31 am (UTC)Если с английским дружите... Шучу я, шучу.
"...[the mind] seems to act independently of the brain in the same sense that a programmer acts independently of his computer, however much he may depend upon the action of that computer for certain purposes[...]
I worked as a scientist trying to prove that the brain accounted for the mind and demonstrating as many brain-mechanisms as possible hoping to show how the brain did so. In presenting this monograph I do not begin with a conclusion and I do not end by making a final and unalterable one. Instead, I reconsider the present-day neurophysiological evidence on the basis of two hypotheses: (a) that man’s being consists of one fundamental element, and (b) that it consists of two. In the end I conclude that there is no good evidence, in spite of new methods, such as the employment of stimulating electrodes, the study of conscious patients and the analysis of epileptic attacks, that the brain alone can carry out the work that the mind does. I conclude that it is easier to rationalize man’s being on the basis of two elements than on the basis of one."
The Mystery of the Mind : A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain. Penfield, Wilder. Princeton University Press, 1975.
"...I cannot believe that this wonderful divine gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other, unimaginable conditions. At least I would maintain that this possibility of a future existence cannot be denied on scientific grounds."
The brain and the unity of conscious experience. Sir John Carew Eccles. London: Cambridge University Press, 1965
Цитаты из остальных рекомендую найти самостоятельно, они вполне доступны в сети. Если вам, конечно, это нужно здесь и сейчас. Сейчас у меня просто нет времени.
А моё предложение глянуть трёхминутный видеоотрывок остаётся в силе...D