Consciousness Is The Smallest Player In The

It Is More Parsimonious To Assume That The Sun Goes Around The Earth, That Atoms At The Smallest Scale Operate In Accordance With The Same Rules That Objects At Larger Scales Follow, And That We Perceive What Is Really Out There. All Of These Positions Were Long Defended By Argument From Parsimony, And They Were All Wrong.

I Know One Lab That Studies Nicotine Receptors And All The Scientists Are Smokers, And Another Lab That Studies Impulse Control And They're All Overweight.

We Open Our Eyes And We Think We're Seeing The Whole World Out There. But What Has Become Clear—and Really Just In The Last Few Centuries—is That When You Look At The Electro-magnetic Spectrum We Are Seeing Less Than 1/10 Billionth Of The Information That's Riding On There. So We Call That Visible Light. But Everything Else Passing Through Our Bodies Is Completely Invisible To Us. Even Though We Accept The Reality That's Presented To Us, We're Really Only Seeing A Little Window Of What's Happening.

Those With Anton's Syndrome Are Not Pretending They Are Not Blind; They Truly Believe They Are Not Blind. Their Verbal Reports, While Inaccurate, Are Not Lies. Instead, They Are Experiencing What They Take To Be Vision, But It Is All Internally Generated.

If You Have Certain Problems With Your Brain But Are Raised In A Good Home, You Might Turn Out Okay. If Your Brain Is Fine And Your Home Is Terrible, You Might Still Turn Out Fine. But If You Have Mild Brain Damage And End Up With A Bad Home Life, You're Tossing The Dice For A Very Unlucky Synergy.