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5.1a1 Consciousness is not an Emergent Property of Neurons

5.1a1 Consciousness is not an Emergent Property of Neurons

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Unlike wetness, which is emergent property of large concentration of H20 molecules, consciousness isn’t an emergent property of a high concentration of neurons. This is obvious when people who have had damage to the cerebellum, which contains 80% of the neurons in the brain, and yet there is no perceivable loss of consciousness.1 Likewise, people can have their spinal cord severed, resulting in quadriplegia and the loss of 200 million neurons, yet with no loss in consciousness.2 Consciousness doesn’t simply arise out of the complexity afforded by a large number of neurons.3

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  1. [[HL-374-Consciousness-And-The-Physical-World#^rw791583002]] ↩︎

  2. [[HL-374-Consciousness-And-The-Physical-World#^rw786991792]] ↩︎

  3. [[HL-Then-I-Am-Myself-The-World#^rw801731471]] ↩︎

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