Take four neuroscientists
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Colin Blakemore What is your advice to a neuroscience PhD student? Think long and hard about whether you want to commit yourself to a career in scientific neuroscience. There are limited resources, grants, jobs and ideas. The sort of people who can’t live without research are the sort of people who will have the enthusiasm to continue. Also, it is very easy to get bogged down in the intricacies of the brain. Never forget that the brain is a cognitive machine, not just a piece of tissue. That is especially relevant to neurogeneticists, who will look at a gene in isolation from everything else. What, in your opinion, is the greatest unanswered question? What exactly are qualia? Qualia are the qualities of conscious experience — the redness of red, for example. But what are they in physical terms? For example, think in terms of explaining the conscious experience of the bat. We may be able to give a description of the conscious thought of a bat, but we will never be able to experience what it is to be that bat.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999