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| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:How are mental operations observed? |
| Posted by: | annou2 |
| Date/Time: | 2010/8/5 23:30:03 |
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Thank you for pointing out Maritain.?I have enormous respect for his social theory, but?I did my doctoral dissertation on his epistemology, and, well, he's not any help with this particular question. My question is?about what experimental psychologists are thinking about consciousness these days.? Some time ago Sperry and Gazzaniga did the famous?split-brain experiments which yielded some extremely surprising?results about what happens to our awareness of visual objects when the two hemispheres of the brain are disconnected.?Jaynes wrote a popular book (The Origin of Human Consciousness) claiming that the experiments proved that each brain has *two* consciousnesses, one for each hemisphere.? Gazzaniga, on the other hand, says somewhere that?Jaynes misunderstood the experiments' results.?Anyway, I haven't read any Gazzaniga recently and I was wondering if he or other experimental psychologists have done more recent work on consciousness. The phenomenologists have a lot to say about it, but I'm more interested in the relationships between brain and consciousness.?I find that John Searle is the most interesting philosopher on the subject these days. |