Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman has cautiously resurrected an alternate explanation—what is known as the dualist argument of consciousness. The materialist argument insists that “mind” is only the by-product of activity in the brain. The dualist argument suggests that there is the hardware—the brain, and then there’s signal that the hardware picks up—the universe of information that Wheeler was talking about. Eagleman writes in his book Incognito: “I’m not asserting that the brain is like a radio, but I am pointing out that it could be true. There is nothing in our current science that
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