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Monday, April 8th, 2013

Neuroscience Needs its Einstein

Author:     JONATHON KEATS
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Saturday, Apr 6, 2013 03:00 PM PDT
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Stephan:   Finally even materialist committed neuroscientists, as this report points out, are confronting the idea that consciousness is more than the brain. Their own experimental data are forcing the Ghost in the Machine into the open. Jonathon Keats is an artist and writer. His collection of fables, 'The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six,' was published this year.

Reading the news, you might be excused for thinking that scientists are on the verge of understanding the human brain.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health are diligently mapping all 100 trillion neural connections between our 86 billion neurons, and President Obama has just announced a $100 million Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative that will study all those networks in action.

The neurologist Robert Burton is skeptical, to say the least. His new book, ‘A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind,

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