Ideas from 'Being You' by Anil Seth [2021], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Being You: new science of consciousness' by Seth,Anil [Faber 2022,978-0-571-33772-9]].

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain

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The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness

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Single neurons can carry out complex functions

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness

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Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

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The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [PG]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence

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Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

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Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

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Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking