Your Deluded Brain Thinks It's Conscious!

Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. From the New York Times:

Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind

The challenge now is to explain how the inner world of consciousness arises from the flesh of the brain.

Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, suggested... that consciousness is a kind of con game the brain plays with itself. The brain is a computer that evolved to simulate the outside world. Among its internal models is a simulation of itself -- a crude appro...