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Old 03-15-2006, 11:25 PM   #22
whoneedscience
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a different tim wrote
No-one in neuroscience, as far as I can tell, thinks consciousness is separate from the body, you'll be pleased to hear, not even the ones who are a bit religious on the side.
Yeah, that's what has me so confused. This guy is very intelligent, and he works in a related field. I'm just wondering if there's some part of the human brain that is beyond the capacity of any other method to replicate. For instance, I remember reading an article a couple years ago where people discovered that glial cells actually played a role in processing information, and they seemed to be completely shocked that they'd missed it for so long. Alas, I don't know anything more about it, and sciam, my other-field lifeblood, is a license nazi (I believe the article was something like "the other half of the brain").
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