“We are not our Brains:” Alva Noe & Brain-based Education | Norm Friesen

“We are not our Brains:” Alva Noe & Brain-based Education | Norm Friesen

Brains are not the same thing as persons. We are also our bodies, our actions, and our relations to others; and none of these are reducible to our brains or others’ brains. [...] Basing” education and instructional strategies on the brain take us back to Cartesian dualisms and the problems associated with them: Brain is separated from the person, thinking occurs in the skull, consciousness is located in a kind of “brain in a vat.” [...] in the video, [Alva] Noe describes consciousness as being “more like a dance than digestion"