Posted: Jan 14, 2017 8:04 pm
Pebble wrote:scott1328 wrote:I don't view consciousness as a "function" of the brain. To me, it is a label we put on a mixed bag of faculties, abilities, and predispositions.
Well getting rid of the concept of consciousness is one way of approaching the issue. Certainly when we have a better understanding of what the brain does, the term may gradually become redundant or explained as a combination of other explained brain activities - however I think we are a long way from being able to stop people using the term.
I'm not sure I agree about that. (See my post #664, above - IMO, it has a function that cannot be made redundant unless our visual acuity collapses to almost nothing.)