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Last Update: 2 September 2011
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For instructions on how to access articles from
certain journals (notably Psychological Review)
from buffalo.edu machines,
link to:
"Classic (Online) Readings in Cognitive Science"
"The ‘magic’ of consciousness is that we think we are experiencing the world through our eyes and ears, but really everything is seen and heard in the brain."
"Reality is a tape-delayed broadcast, carefully censored before it reaches us."
"Our perceptions…are fantasies we construct that correlate with reality."
"Your brain, after all, is encased in darkness and silence in the vault of the skull. Its only contact with the outside world is via the electrical signals exiting and entering along the super-highways of nerve bundles. Because different types of sensory information (hearing, seeing, touch, and so on) are processed at different speeds by different neural architectures, your brain faces an enormous challenge: what is the best story that can be constructed about the outside world?"
"My phenomenal world…[is] a neural fiction perpetrated by the senses."
"It is a gross mischaracterization to say that we simply open our eyes and take it all in; what we are in contact with is a constructed product of many different brain processes."