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• [1] Mai-Tai Bee from Brooklyn March 25, 2009 - 01:44PM

  Don't let the doctor off the hook! He has not coherently explained how he knows this isn't all a lovely dream...

  
  
• [2] mk March 25, 2009 - 01:48PM

  I'm a computer programmer, and the guest's comment about one's past experience (we would call it current state) being immediately brought to bear when viewing graffiti is very much in keeping with the idea that the brain works very much like a computer, not just storing information but maintaining complex relationships amongst different things that were "committed to memory".

  Artificial intelligence is usually approached as a software (not a hardware) problem because of this.

  
  
• [3] John from Toronto March 25, 2009 - 01:54PM

  how would Dr. Noe connect the fact that cognitive processse have evolved by addition only?

  would not consciosuness then evolve as a mechanism to turn off superfluous sensory information? would not this mean consciousness is in fact beyond experience?

  
  
• [4] Stephen from NEw York City March 25, 2009 - 01:57PM

  I am so interested in what he has to say but he speaks so quickly I cannot follow him. My consciousness?

  
  
• [5] Danko Beskid Niski from Manhattan - Fort Washington March 25, 2009 - 02:01PM

  Lovely dream? Think about that for a moment.

  
  
• [6] gaetano catelli from downtown manhattan March 29, 2009 - 12:50AM

  fascinating. a new paradigm is certainly called for, since the notion that consciousness is merely the product of neurological events is certainly wanting. we can't even locate within the brain what we mean by the number 2, much less the works of Shakespeare.

  i wonder if his ideas would explain why in a photograph (or painting) the areas in the shade have such a different color from the sunlit areas -- yet, when we are seeing the actual scene itself, we don't notice this.