If you repeat this regularly, a strange mutual consciousness arises between you.
It shows the really important mystery is how consciousness arises from the brain.
Even today, cognitive scientists struggle to understand how consciousness arises from matter, though few doubt that it does.
Consciousness arises from the electrical activity of the nerve cells, which, in turn, is generated by ion channels.
What matters to him is that consciousness arises from what the brain does - its work as a "syntactic engine" - not from what it is made of.
I would say that quite a few scientists, both inside and outside the neurosciences, do doubt that consciousness arises from matter.
Michael T. Alkire at the University of California, Irvine, put it this way in an article in Science in 2008: "How consciousness arises in the brain remains unknown," he wrote.
The Hard Problem of the play's title is a phrase coined by the Australian philosopher David Chalmers to describe the way in which consciousness arises from a physical world.
Jason Bregman Delray Beach, Fla. Adam Kirsch, in his review of Anthony Gottlieb's book "The Dream of Reason," writes, "Even today, cognitive scientists struggle to understand how consciousness arises from matter, though few doubt that it does" ("What Makes You So Sure?," September 5th).
In recent years, he and other scientists, like Christof Koch, now at the Allen Institute for Brain Science*, have made progress in understanding when consciousness arises, namely from massive complexity and linkages between different parts of the brain.
