Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.733

   I'm going to ask you, as scientists or people who understand science, if there's a theoretical claim that this is, this part of the brain is where consciousness is generated in the sense of a subjective sentient being of the mind, then if this part of the brain is damaged, then that function should be lost. So somebody who has no prefrontal cortex should have no subjectivity in the sense that we are talking about here. No person who receives all this information and knows, this is my vision. I am a sentient being, the sort of agent, or I, the active me, that Oliver Sacks was talking about. Dam…

   yt/CmuYrnOVmfk-the-source-of-consciousness-with-mark-solms/transcript.txt

2. 02 · blog0.729

   But even if we could find a satisfactory account of the relevant passivity, this diagnosis would be problematic. For it assimilates the addict to someone whose behavior does not even qualify as an action —someone, e.g., with Tourette’s Syndrome, whose verbal outbursts and bodily movements are not even voluntary . It thus fails to shed light on the conditions under which someone acts—intentionally, even deliberately—without being accountable for what she does. (The same problem arises for the proposal that autonomous agents differ from other agents in virtue of their special way of understandin…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/personal-autonomy.md

3. 03 · blog0.728

   Whatever integration of bodily functions remains is maintained by external supports and by bodily systems other than the brain, which merely preserves consciousness (Bartlett and Youngner 1988, 205–6). If total brain failure is supposed to be sufficient for death, and if this is true only because the former entails the loss of somatic functioning integrated by the brain, then the loss of those functions should also be sufficient for death. But these patients, who are clearly alive, show that this is not so. Either the whole-brain definition must be rejected or this particular reason for accept…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-definition-of-death.md

4. 04 · _intake0.727

   The core of Pic’s problem was life long choices and procrastination that subjugated his health. He has kids and friends and family who have also fallen prey to this insidous brain disease. Poor choices are all tied to a problem with dopamine signaling. In fact most of us faced with change of any kind have to deal with these type of decisions. Procrastination is a huge hurdle for any change we face in life.

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/the-dopamine-rx-good-choices-or-bad.md

5. 05 · blog0.725

   It seems not. Picking up the blond Lab was an alternative that was not available to her. In this respect, she could not have done otherwise . Given her psychological condition, she cannot even form a want to touch a blond Lab, hence she could not pick one up. But notice that, if she wanted to pick up the blond Lab, then she would have done so . Of course, if she wanted to pick up the blond Lab, then she would not suffer from the very psychological disorder that causes her to be unable to pick up blond haired doggies. The classical compatibilist analysis of ‘could have done otherwise’ thus fail…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/compatibilism.md

6. 06 · blog0.725

   The pituitary gland is, though small, undivided and located in the midline, not the seat of the soul because it is outside the brain and entirely immobile (24 December 1640, AT III:263, CSMK 162). The processus vermiformis of the cerebellum (as Descartes called the appendage which Galen had discussed) is not a suitable candidate because it is divisible into two halves (30 July 1640, AT III:124, not in CSMK). A second interesting addition to the Treatise of man that Descartes made in these letters concerns memory. Descartes now wrote that memories may not only be stored in the hemispheres, but …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/descartes-and-the-pineal-gland.md

7. 07 · yt0.720

   The second thing that was odd and was mentioned but just glossed over in medical school was that the brain is asymmetrical. And that too is interesting because there's no real reason for the brain again to be asymmetrical. The skull is broadly speaking schemat symmetrical. And if you wanted to just get a bit more stuff into the skull, you could expand the brain symmetrically. But indeed it has expanded asymmetrically suggesting that there's a difference between what's going on in one part and what's going on in another. Uh and in school medical school they mentioned that that was largely due t…

   yt/LZ5C11mlTH4-your-brain-has-2-masters-and-one-is-leading-us-astray-dr-iai/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.719

   So, too, it is reasonable to think that her stance toward her motives is determined by her long-term values and/or her relatively stable commitments and cares. On a strict coherentist conception of autonomy, autonomous agents can be moved by desires they are helpless to resist: though an addict fails to govern herself if she would rather resist her irresistible urge to take drugs, she is an autonomous agent if she has no objection to her addiction and its motivational effects. According to the coherentist, moreover, both the origin and the content of a person’s higher-order attitudes (evaluati…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/personal-autonomy.md

9. 09 · yt0.717

   The insular is not like the prefrontal cortex where all the different information processing streams converge from your various senses, leading to your capacity to make decisions about what are you going to do about it, but rather it's where the visceral internal information from the vegetative body is transmitted to the cortex and integrated with this extra set of information. So very, very mainstream theory that this is where the self resides in the cortex. So let's see what happens if this part of the cortex is damaged as it was in this patient, Patient B, a patient of Damasio's. Like I did…

   yt/CmuYrnOVmfk-the-source-of-consciousness-with-mark-solms/transcript.txt

10. 10 · blog0.717

    69, n.8): Suddenly seeing Sylvia, I form the belief that I see her; as a result, I become rattled and drop my cup of tea, scalding my leg. I then form the belief that my leg hurts; but though the former belief is a (part) cause of the latter, it is not the case that I accept the latter on the evidential basis of the former. [ 4 ] What makes the problem so difficult is that there are a variety of ways the causal chain of events can go wrong and thereby fail to establish a basing relation. For example, glitches in the brain, wandering thoughts, wishful thinking, strong emotions, etc., may all be…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-epistemic-basing-relation.md