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Footnote

Rez. in Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2007, H.9, S.93-94 (M.Gardner): "Unser Gehirn enthält einige hundert Mil-liarden Neuronen mit zehntausendmal so vielen Verbindungen zwischen ihnen. Durch welch unglaubliche Zauberei wird dieses Gewirr von Fäden seiner selbst bewusst, fähig, Liebe und Hass zu empfinden, Romane und Sinfonien zu schreiben, Lust und Schmerz zu fühlen und sich aus freiem Willen für Gut oder Böse zu entscheiden? Der australische Philosoph David Chalmers hat die Erklärung des Bewusstseins »das schwere Problem» genannt. Das leichte Problem ist, Unbewusstes wie Atmen, Verdauen, Gehen, Wahrnehmen und tausend andere Dinge zu verstehen. An dem schweren beißen sich Philosophen, Psychologen und Neurowissenschaftler zurzeit bevorzugt die Zähne aus und produzieren tausende Bücher. Ein aktuelles stammt von Douglas R. Hofstadter, Professor für Kognitionswissenschaft an der Universität von Indiana in Bloomington, der vor allem durch sein preisgekröntes Buch »Gödel, Escher, Bach» bekannt geworden ist. Sein neues Werk, so genial und provokant wie seine Vorgänger, ist eine bunte Mischung aus Spekulationen und Geschichten aus seinem Leben. Ein ganzes Kapitel ist einer persönlichen Tragödie gewidmet, die Hofstadter bis heute zu verarbeiten versucht: Im Dezember 1993 starb seine Frau Carol im Alter von 42 Jahren plötzlich an einem Hirntumor. In der Vorstellung von einem Leben nach dem Tod kann er keinen Trost finden; so bleibt ihm nur die Gewissheit, dass Carol in den Erinnerungen derer, die sie kannten und liebten, weiterleben wird - zumindest für eine gewisse Zeit.

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Now it might seem that is a fairly well-defined scientific task: just figure out how the brain does it. In the end I think that is the right attitude to have. But our peculiar history makes it difficult to have exactly that attitude-to take consciousness as a biological phenomenon like digestion or photosynthesis, and figure out how exactly it works as a biological phenomenon. Two philosophical obstacles cast a shadow over the whole subject. The first is the tradition of God, the soul, and immortality. Consciousness is not a part of the ordinary biological world of digestion and photosynthesis: it is part of a spiritual world. It is sometimes thought to be a property of the soul and the soul is definitely not a part of the physical world. The other tradition, almost as misleading, is a certain conception of Science with a capital "S." Science is said to be "reductionist" and "materialist," and so construed there is no room for consciousness in Science. If it really exists, consciousness must really be something else. It must be reducible to something else, such as neuron firings, computer programs running in the brain, or dispositions to behavior. There are also a number of purely technical difficulties to neurobiological research. The brain is an extremely complicated mechanism with about a hundred billion neurons in ... (Rest nicht frei). " [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/01/10/can-information-theory-explain-consciousness/].

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