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...located? How does it work? Does it arise from purely physical processes-pulses of electricity zapping from brain cell to brain cell, helped along their way by myriad complex chemicals? Or is it something beyond the merely physical-something ethereal that might be close to the spiritual concept of the soul...
...Consciousness," says Antonio Damasio, "is a concept of your own self, something that you reconstruct moment by moment on the basis of the image of your own body, your own autobiography and a sense of your intended future." Missing any one of the essential parts that it's built on diminishes consciousness but does not totally negate it. Damasio has no doubt that Boswell is conscious, though the quality of that consciousness is impossible for anyone else to imagine...
...product of the simultaneous, high-frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, according to Crick and Koch, just as the tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex and seamless sound of a symphony orchestra. The concept is highly speculative, Crick acknowledges in his book The Astonishing Hypothesis (which carries the ironic subtitle The Scientific Search for the Soul). "If you think I appear to be groping my way through the jungle," he writes, "you are right...
...This concept may be easier to implement now that fathers are more involved in the care of their young children. If it's pregnant women asking to work at home, employers can brush off their requests much more facilely than if it's a good percentage of their male and female employees wanting the same thing...
...time to pay court to some kind of Russian mystique is over. American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake is better than the Kirov's capricious version in both concept and execution. With one exception: the Russian troupe's marvelously schooled corps de ballet in the so-called white act. With 30 women moving as a single impulse, a single exhalation of breath (A.B.T. has 24), the scene is rapturous and mesmerizing: unforgettable. It also shows that the Kirov is still capable of supreme classical dancing. Every troupe must refresh itself with innovation, but the evidence from New York is that...