FTA: "Consciousness requires the joint operation of the brain, the body and the world."
Well, yeah. Things occur in the the world, and then the brain interprets them, decides what to do, and has the body do it. I don't see how this interferes at all with the notion of brain-as-self.
I'm not upset by the idea that (as the later example in the article) the love I feel is a chemical reaction. As the interviewee says, it's all context. Me (that is, brain) interprets things based on context, and assigns value to them based on that context. I, for lack of a better word, like "love," whatever it is.
Of course the brain is consciousness. It's doesn't exist in isolation, sure, but I think that it is both necessary and sufficient for the human experience, as inklesspen says above.
Well, yeah. Things occur in the the world, and then the brain interprets them, decides what to do, and has the body do it. I don't see how this interferes at all with the notion of brain-as-self.
I'm not upset by the idea that (as the later example in the article) the love I feel is a chemical reaction. As the interviewee says, it's all context. Me (that is, brain) interprets things based on context, and assigns value to them based on that context. I, for lack of a better word, like "love," whatever it is.
Of course the brain is consciousness. It's doesn't exist in isolation, sure, but I think that it is both necessary and sufficient for the human experience, as inklesspen says above.