At a time when the US government is spending enormous amounts of money on a project called BRAIN and the European Union has committed itself to the multi-million Human Brain Project, the chances to reveal the workings of the neuronal components of the brain are probably as good as they have never been before. Nevertheless, even if brain functions - or the entire brain - could be simulated on a computer one day, as the EU project aims for, the question of the relation between the experiencing subject and the brain is still an open one. The tension between experienced subjectivity and its...
At a time when the US government is spending enormous amounts of money on a project called BRAIN and the European Union has committed itself to the mu...