Week 4: Post 2 - Reading

The reading subject was Neural Philosophy. The Astonishing Hypothesis written by Francis Crick in 1994. The Astonishing Hypothesis describes human as nothing more than bunch of nerve cells and molecules working. Crick mentions that we have created this illusion. Another very interesting reading was An Integral Theory of Consciousness by Ken Wilber which explains that the brain and consciousness is a biological phenomenon. Another reading was The Problem of Consciousness by John R. Searle. Searle says the most important scientific discovery would be to answer the following question “How exactly do neurobiological processes in the brain cause consciousness?”. Another good example is intrinsic feature of reality, which describes “physical objects have features that are intrinsic to reality” are all natural science. Moreover, the comparison between the readings would be to say, they basically talked about brain and consciousness. While they were talking about brain consciousness, they had similar theories how brain and reality worked.