Joel Kontinen
The equation consciousness = the brain does not work. “We have failed to explain how consciousness equates to neural activity inside the skull because the task is self-contradictory,” says professor Raymond Tallis in this week’s New Scientist.
Tallit, who is a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester, UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, refutes this Darwinian equation in his new book Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (Acumen, 2011).
He gives a summary of his ideas in New Scientist, saying that in contrast to what the orthodox Darwinian view postulates, consciousness cannot be reduced to neural activity nor can a physical organ be used to explain something that is non- physical.
According to professor Tallis, Darwinian evolution fails and will always fail to explain an immaterial trait with a material reason because it is impossible.
Evolutionists, known as latter-day Sadducees, would like to explain everything by material causes. However, reality has more dimensions than what they are willing to admit.
Source:
Tallis, Ray. 2011. You won't find consciousness in the brain. New Scientist 2742: 28-29.
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