Irreducibly Conscious: Slected Papers on Consciousness

摘要

Bruce MacLennan, in his chapter on "Protophenomena" brings the reader into the brain sciences, noting that the principal problem is that of integrating the phenomenology of consciousness with the scientific world view. Examples in support of the general view are drawn from the neurophysiology of vision, but the examples are arguable; for example, it is, indeed, the case that retinal rods greatly exceed the number of optic nerve fibers carrying impulses arising from rod-function; but it is also the case that the ratio of cones to optic nerve fibers in the fovea is just about 1 .0.