Category Archives: Brain size

Civil Servant With No Brain Explained

Posted on February 6, 2021 by James Cross

Occasionally I have seen various papers, blog posts, and comments referencing the famous 44 year French civil servant who lives a normal life seemingly without a brain. Sometimes the writers demand an explanation from consciousness theories. Other times arguments are … Continue reading →

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Brain As Emulator

Posted on August 4, 2020 by James Cross

I can’t remember how I first came across Robert Pepperell’s Consciousness as a Physical Process Caused by the Organization of Energy in the Brain. At the time, I remember the paper struck me as interesting and made some good points … Continue reading →

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Evolution, Learning, and Uncertainty

Posted on January 15, 2020 by James Cross

A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I’m speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn’t really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the changes in the long run bestow some advantage (or at … Continue reading →

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