I’ve been trying to develop my understanding of how the human world becomes better or worse, and this four-part Arc has been my exploration of some apt explanations. The thesis I have been trying to develop is, to lay out two alternatives for an understanding of how the human world improves for us, or deteriorates. The materialist-scientific explanations offer brain structure, nature, nurture, culture and technology as the determinants of human consciousness. But humans change, and neuroplasticity, the scientific proof that brains change, tell us that the change involves our consciousness. The evolution of human consciousness per se is not his focus.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2023 23:17 UTC