IS THE mind locked into the brain? Are conscious experiences just bits of the brain? That’s the way it looks to most people, including a large number of researchers. So it might come as a bit of a shock to discover that quite a few scientists and philosophers disagree.
According to the standard model of the mind sciences, the brain encodes information about the world, the body and its own internal operations in “neural representations”, or stored information. This is used in memory, thinking, problem-solving, planning, physical actions and so on. The model insists that the “mind” is simply the…
