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The idea that neuroscience might enable thoughts to be read and intentions revealed is perhaps the most threatening of all to civil liberties.
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Cortical neurons are the cells responsible for most of the brain's complex higher activity enabling thought, perception and voluntary movement.
And it might be granted if sensory experience is understood to function as language does, both enabling thought and conforming it in large part to its own context, its own limitations.
Ubiquitous posters displaying his photograph feature the slogan "Big Brother is watching you"; hidden devices in every room enable his Thought Police to monitor the activities of all citizens.
Nagel's view of thought/intelligence, phenomenologically conceived as a force of nature, seems to me an enabling view tacitly backing research into plant sense-making as parallel, perhaps equivalent, to neurologically enabled intelligence.
The role of language as a vehicle of thought enables human thinking to be as complex and varied as it is.
The ability to exercise willpower and inhibit impulsive behaviours is considered to be a core feature of the brain's executive functions, a set of neural processes - including attention, reasoning, and working memory - which regulate our behaviour and thoughts, and enable us to adapt them according to the changing demands of the task at hand.
They see them simply as strings of names that enable us to express thoughts.
The same may be true of structures and processes which enable us to entertain thoughts about televisions and space shuttles.
Since there is considerable dispute as to whether even chimpanzees have the kind of sophisticated 'theory of mind' to enable them to entertain thoughts about experiential states as such (Byrne and Whiten 1988, 1998; Povinelli 2000), it seems most implausible that many other species of mammal (let alone reptiles, birds, and fish) would qualify as phenomenally conscious, on these accounts.
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are poised to enable a person's thoughts to operate a computer that could drive a wheelchair, operate a pain pump, or communicate for people who can think but not talk.
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