![]() ![]() ![]() Parks doesn’t contemplate these alternatives in a void. The contenders are: 1) “The popular and orthodox view: consciousness is produced by your brain and exists exclusively in your head.” 2) “The minority enactivist view: consciousness arises from our active engagement with the world and requires both subject and object to happen, so conscious experience is extended through the body and into the environment.” 3) “The minority minority view, the Spread Mind, in which experience is made possible by the meeting of perceptive system and the world, but actually located at the object perceived, identical with it even in short, experience is the same thing as the object.” Those questions are the focus of Parks’s “Out of My Head,” in which he uses every trick in his writer’s arsenal to evoke the leaping, lurching, fleeting, distractible nature of consciousness itself as he weighs three theories of consciousness that are vying for primacy in the world of neuroscience. ![]() Like what exactly is consciousness? Or what precisely is a thought?” No human organ is quite as mysterious, he acknowledges, as the one ensconced inside our skulls: “Considering how exhaustively the brain has been studied, and for how long, it is remarkable how much elemental stuff we still don’t know or at least can’t universally agree upon. ![]()
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