The Brain, The Mind and The World | Full Interview | Raymond Tallis
82Our sense of consciousness and being is not illusory, but cannot be explained by neuroscience. What explains it: materialism? dualism? panpsychism? None of the above?
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Raymond Tallis:
- We are not now and never will be able to account for the mind in terms of neural activity.
- The mind is not a computer
- Rejects the claim that intentionality can be instantiated in a brain. Neurons firing aren't 'about anything'.
- 'If one is seeking the origin of human distinctiveness, the brain is the wrong place to look. Our distinctiveness stems from a shared space of meaning opened by the thumb, posture, pointing, and language'
- Is a non-dualist, sympathetic to a roughly 'extended mind' approach in which the social sphere, tools and environment all somehow co-constitute the mind.
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Raymond Tallis: Former neuroscientist, philosopher and poet and Tallis is the author of many books including Aping Mankind and The Kingdom of Infinite Space. He has been a vociferous critic of what he calls ‘Neuromania’.