MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 5--SEE ESP. INTERESTING COMMENTS FROM NED BLOCK AND MOHAN MATTHEN; MORE COMMENTS WELCOME
An interesting read, but I'm curious what readers--especially, but not only, philosophers--make of this claim about the purported upshot of the new technologies for tracking meaning in the brain:
Now we know what [thoughts] really are: patterns of neural activation that correspond to points in meaning space. The mind—the only truly private place—has become inspectable from the outside. In the future, a therapist, wanting to understand how your relationships run awry, might examine the dimensions of the patterns your brain falls into. Some epileptic patients about to undergo surgery have intracranial probes put into their brains; researchers can now use these probes to help steer the patients’ neural patterns away from those associated with depression.
