Sentences with phrase «upon brain states»

And even materialistic philosophers say that however much mental states may depend upon brain states, what makes something the belief, say, that the cat is on the mat is not the brain's satisfying a certain physical specification, but the belief's arising from our seeing the cat and its resulting in our stepping carefully round the mat.

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consciousness is generated from and remains dependent upon a physical brain, though it can also influence neural states.

Neuroscience, he says, has shown the dependence of conscious experience upon the brain but it has not reduced consciousness to observable states of the brain.

It is state in which which our brains are acting as if called upon to interpret real sensory input when actually experiencing much less coherent stimuli than reality provides.

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

As the industrial action embarked upon by medical doctors in Kogi state hits one month on Wednesday, the Nigeria Medical Association, has urged the State Government to do the needful by meeting their demands to avoid brain drain that has already started in the health sestate hits one month on Wednesday, the Nigeria Medical Association, has urged the State Government to do the needful by meeting their demands to avoid brain drain that has already started in the health seState Government to do the needful by meeting their demands to avoid brain drain that has already started in the health sector.

Drawing upon the tradition of 18th - century travel books, Smithson here presented «anti-monuments,» tributes to suburban sprawl and urban growth that exemplified the decay and deterioration of all things: «One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.»