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Melvin Morse

  • The Dying of the Light

    June 24, 2009

    • Ready for some scientific heresy?  First the orthodox sermon: In a January 19, 2007 article entitled “The Mystery of Consciousness,” Steven Pinker,  Johnstone Professor of Psychology  at Harvard University, assured readers of Time magazine that “Consciousness does not reside in an ethereal soul that uses the brain like a PDA; consciousness is the activity of the brain.” Scientists had ...