| Abstract: | Comments on a central disagreement in a dialog between D. Bindra (see record 1971-03399-001) and R. W. Sperry (1970) as to whether subjective experience (e.g., pain) can have a causal effect of brain activity. Sperry maintains that subjective experience itself directly determines the further course of brain activity. The author's views are that emergent properties are presumably "emergent" to the extent that they are not terms in the physical laws governing more elementary components. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
