Heric:

The notion that qualia -- discriminations in awareness -- can be made by rapid variance in neural circuits is (to my view) kind of like asserting that thought and voices are hidden inside the circuitry of telephones, because they ar ecapoable of consucting so many different kinds of conversations. The porosition entirely omits the aware source behind the circuit.

Edelman's assertion that circuitous loops can account for awareness just doesn't add up to me, sorry. I think it is some kind of academic cop out, actually.

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