Walter J. Freeman (1927–2016)

This is a really tough book to get through, but it repays the hard work. Freeman is not only a brain expert, he's also a philosopher (cites Aquinas and Merleau-Ponty in particular) and an electronic engineer which is what makes this book pivotal to my own understanding of the world. His conclusions are entirely consistent with those of Donald Hoffman but he doesn't spend any time pondering the consequences of his theory of epistemological solipsism. According to Hoffman, the brain is just another icon in the MUI with no causal powers so I'd like to know precisely *how* Freeman knows (with his solipsistic brain) that the perceptual process is only uni-directional...… (more)