[ExI] LA Times: Misreading the mind

[Lee Corbin]

Bryan writes

> Yesterday I mostly completed a system to separate the brain into ten or 
> fifteen regions, while keeping it alive

That's some trick. Very good. Still, I hope that it isn't anyone I know.

> as well as providing a conduit for electrical stimulation from one region
> to another.

Amazing.

> The only remaining problem is that of neurochemicals, and I think that can be 
> solved by some fancy MEMS (which is difficult to come by). Otherwise, 
> this should lead to opportunities to more progressively study the brain 
> since it exposes both structure and function into encapsulated units.

Indeed, it sure sounds like it.  I hope that all the holists are not, ultimately, too
disappointed by your work, since it is all too likely to end up with just more
linear, western, reductive knowledge that does not really answer the "hard
questions" about consciousness, you know, the questions that can not possibly
ever have answers.

> So there's some good work going on. Just not necessarily in the news.

Glad to hear it.  (But honestly, I was never in doubt.)

Lee