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BI 237 Ehud Ahissar: Consciousness and Perceptual Dualism
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Ehud Ahissar is a professor in the Department of Brain Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Years of studying how rodents actively sense their environment through whisking has led Ahissar to propose a dualistic framework for consciousness. He suggests we communicate with others (and ourselves) through a non-physical digital process, while we experience the world through a physical analog process. These two processing modes map onto complementary opposing hierarchical loops of brain circuitry.