Comments on: REVIEW – Genesis (2006) by Bernard Beckett http://ruthlessculture.com/2009/06/17/review-genesis-2006-by-bernard-beckett/ Jonathan McCalmont's Criticism Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jonathan M http://ruthlessculture.com/2009/06/17/review-genesis-2006-by-bernard-beckett/#comment-422 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:13:12 +0000 http://ruthlessculture.com/?p=475#comment-422 To be fair, the brain does seem to be singularly transparent to our intuitive understanding of it. But then if consciousness is a product of the brain then I suppose said consciousness attempting to understand the brain is a bit like warmth trying to understand fur :-)

I wish SF dealt more aggressively with contemporary psychology. But other than that Egan story whose name escapes me (“Mister Volition”?), I haven’t seen a take on it that didn’t cop out.

]]> By: A.R.Yngve http://ruthlessculture.com/2009/06/17/review-genesis-2006-by-bernard-beckett/#comment-416 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:06:21 +0000 http://ruthlessculture.com/?p=475#comment-416 When people (or writers, being people) cannot admit that Form=Function, that a thing shaped exactly like a brain IS a brain, then they really subscribe to the mythological notion of a ghost (“soul”) in the machine (the human brain).

Having said that, I wholeheartedly support writing speculative fiction about the nature of consciousness, or alternative forms of consciousness, or new models of it…

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