This besides being over my head, is absolutely fascinating.
“Well, for me, sometimes it’s the very specific questions about, you know, what is the nature of agency? You know, how do we explain action and intention and those types of things? And well, let’s take a look at how they go wrong in these types of pathology and that might help us understand better. Or, more generally, you know, what is the mind? And let’s take a look here, and see how that works. So at least for the philosopher – philosophers are interested in bringing whatever we can learn from the clinic over into the theoretical realm of how we talk about the mind. And I think for scientists it might be a different thing in a way – scientists like to think of the next experiment, how can we put that experiment together?”
I saw a show on the Science Channel the other night that dealt with a person who was just by God convinced that her husband and children were not her husband and children but were people who somebody had substituted them with. Crazy as hell is the way I explain it.
“A paper published in Nature (Quiroga et al., 2005) reported that a particular neuron (in the brain of a patient undergoing surgery of intractable epileptic seizures) responded consistently and exclusively to pictures of Jennifer Aniston.”
I think I have a couple of those.