PoM article: Stories Matter, Matter Stories

Christian de Quincey, Intro: Are rocks conscious? Do animals or plants
have souls? Have you ever wondered whether worms or insects might feel
pain or pleasure? Can trees feel anything at all? Ever wondered where
in the great unfolding of evolution consciousness first appeared? If
questions like these intrigue you, you are in good company, because
they touch on the deepest mystery in modern philosophy, science, and
spirituality: How are minds and bodies related?.....
http://www.noetic.org/publications/review/issue60/main.cfm?page=r60_deQuincey.html

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Science Miscellaneous features sci-tech news, philosophy of science,
space exploration, the physical sciences, the social & psychological
sciences, the biological sciences.

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Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field that includes
philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, computer science, linguistics,
biology, information science, anthropology, physics.

=John Searle= "As recently as a hundred years ago, the central
question was still about knowledge [epistemology]. But now, the center
of philosophical debate is philosophy of mind."

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