http://wastedmonkeys.com/will-science-ever-explain-consciousness/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 http://wastedmonkeys.com/will-science-ever-explain-consciousness/#comment-12 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:56:18 +0000 http://wastedmonkeys.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/will-science-ever-explain-consciousness/#comment-12 Good one. Reminds me of Charlie Rose’s interview of James Watson (of Watson & Crick fame) and Harward Prof E.O.Wilson.
The latter referred to Darwin’s Origin of Species and Watson & Crick’s discovery of molecular code for DNA as 2 major achievements in modern biology. Charlie Rose asked them what prospective discovery could be the next big thing.
Watson said understanding architecture of human memory- storage of information in human brain- is the next big challenge. Wilson referred to the fact that we still do not know much about the conscious mind.
The term ‘qualia’ was a new one (though the idea was not).

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