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Mind – your head!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

R. P. Ingvaldsen
Affiliation:
Department of Sport Sciences, University of Trondheim, N-7055 Dragvoll, Trondheim, Norwayrolf.ingvaldsen@no.unit.avh
H. T. A. Whiting
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DX, United Kingdom, htaw1@tower.york.ac.uk

Abstract

Gray takes an information-processing paradigm as his departure point, invoking a comparator as part of the system. He concludes that consciousness is to be found “in” the comparator but is unable to point to how the comparison takes place. Thus, the comparator turns out not to be an entity arising out of brain research per se, but out of the logic of the paradigm. In this way, Gray both reinvents dualism and remains trapped in the language game of his own model – ending up dealing with the unknowable.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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