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The Biology of Consciousness and Morality


March 17, 2007

Tom Ashbrook talks with husband and wife philosophers Pat and Paul Churchland, professors at the University of California at San Diego, about neurophilosophy. They argue there is no independent “mind”, just the human brain. Consciousness itself, they say, is straight biology, a machine.  MP3


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Posted by Biology Major  on  06/01  at  01:23 AM

Consciousness isn't simplified down to a biproduct of a biological machine - consciousness is our soul - unchanging, eternal; the truth is consciousness is god.
Thinking consciousness resides within the individual human or organism is anthrocentric and like thinking the earth is the center of the solar system. The unified consciousness spans the entire universe and is the fundamental necessity driving the continuity of existance and life.
Simply a better more-unified and optomistic philosophy!



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