Here is an example of what #neurology and #PhilosophyOfTheMind are faced with trying to elucidate #Consciousness - that slippery notion of ‘who we are’.
I am neither a scientist nor philosopher, but it seems to me that looking for consciousness in the electrical potential activity of brain cells is never going to explain a whole lot. Imagine trying to explain an electron by solely studying magnetism in excruciating detail as best we can with instruments designed to detect only what we theorise is measurable in a magnetic effect - I.e. to see what we wish to see. That is similar to what neurologists are doing by measuring brain cell activity as a way to identify, and hence classify, consciousness.
In the end, the research may prove fruitful and lead to other discoveries and theories about brain cell activity and the communication channels of the body, but that is the only thing which will be elucidated, brain cell activy - nothing like consciousness (a slippery concept as I said).
The link will take you to the abstract, summary, results and conclusion of the scientific paper, but the paper itself is behind a paywall I’m sad to say (#Grifters have to make money out of publishing someone’s hard work - so dictates capitalism where profit is made from someone else’s sweat and effort, Bah! It wouldn’t be so distastful if $ were extracted only to recoup #publishing costs and wages, but shareholders? Leeches!)
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