tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264500.post8717374808596108583..comments2023-07-11T05:13:06.461-06:00Comments on Morehead's Musings: Out of Our Heads: Challenging Materialist Notions of ConsciousnessJohn W. Moreheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262542253787543738noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264500.post-29210252597123912052009-10-26T19:07:29.850-06:002009-10-26T19:07:29.850-06:00An excellent book on the topic is "The Consc...An excellent book on the topic is "The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory" by a philosopher, David J. Chalmers. (1997) He shows the inadequacy of the reductionist school of thought. It was of great benefit in aiding me to find a way out of a purely mechanistic view of things. It has to do with emergent properties and the principle of supervenience.SteveAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00394492083234379612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264500.post-66770343556792811562009-10-20T12:50:00.048-06:002009-10-20T12:50:00.048-06:00Sounds interesting. I remember Karl Popper and Joh...Sounds interesting. I remember Karl Popper and John Eccles chaellinging traditional notions as a philosopher and neuroscientist in "The Self and Its Brain". <br /><br />I suppose one of the first challenge to the materialist notions of consciousness come against David Hume by Thomas Reid, the Scottish philosopher of the "commensense school" with his "Inquiry into the Human Mind". <br /><br />One of the striking arguments he made which is still valid is that no one who believes the materialist notion of consciousness actually behaves as if they believe it to be true, and there must be something astray with a philosophy which has so much irrelevance to behaviour.TonyTheProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10486414706261508994noreply@blogger.com