Wes Alwan
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first heard Jun 2026
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become elevated to this political power.
With all the ensuing aftermath.
While most others evaporate into oblivion after doing their modest deeds in the ongoing projects of the brain.
Why is this the task of a theory of consciousness?
Because that is what conscious events do.
They hang around, monopolizing time in the limelight.
We cannot settle for putting it that way, however.
There is no literal searchlight or of attention.
So we need to explain away this seductive metaphor by explaining the functional powers of attention grabbing without presupposing a single attention giving source.
Okay, that's important.
This means we need to address two questions.
Not just how is this fame in the brain achieved, but also
two, which I have called the hard question, and then what happens next.
Okay, two questions.
How is the fame in the brain achieved?
Second, what happens next?
Aftermath one may postulate activity in one neural structure or another as the necessary and sufficient condition for consciousness.
But one must then take on the burden of explaining why that activity ensures the political power of the events it involves.
And this means taking a good hard look at how the relevant differences in competence might be enabled by changes in the status of the brain.
Is that clearer?
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