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Inner speech and conscious experience
- by Alain Morin

"Imagine that scientists have been successful at designing a drug that
“freezes” brain areas producing our internal monologue. After taking the
drug you can’t talk to yourself anymore. Every other mental activity is
fine, but it’s now total silence in your head. Not a word. What would
happen? What would it be like?"

Full text:
http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030403.html
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GUEST EDITORIAL

Empirical Constraints on the Concept of Consciousness
- by Thomas W. Clark

"As other commentators on the target article have pointed out, and as Crick
and Koch themselves acknowledge, their hypotheses regarding the neural
correlates of consciousness (NCC) have much in common with the work of other
researchers. There now seems to be a well-established research consensus
that the NCC are distributed, integrated, and semi-hierarchical, extending
across many brain systems subserving various cognitive functions.
Consciousness seems to involve neural coalitions, not central executives."

Full text:
http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030404.html
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