"Consciousness Science Underdetermined: A Short History of Endless Debates"

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405314.0006.028?view=text;rgn=main

Featuring #JohnTyndall's intuition that even if we had a perfect description of brain processes and a perfect knowledge of the associated thought(s) and feeling(s), we still could not explain how one arose from the other.

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#JohnTyndall physicist and philosopher, defender of #Darwinism (most notably in his #BelfastAddress), died #OTD 4 Dec 1893.

He was the first scientist to explain "why is the sky blue." He also conducted the first study of London pollution and opened up public debate into the greenhouse effect on earth's atmosphere. #ClimateChange

On Tyndall's Belfast Address : https://branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=bernard-lightman-on-tyndalls-belfast-address-1874

Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/tyndall-john-a8696

Image from https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Tyndall_(ca._1885).jpg

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Why is the sky blue?? We answer that question, have a fun experiment to try and we find out who answered it first!

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