If one goes by David’s definition of having at least one paper on the subject of consciousness published in a peer-reviewed journal, then I am a professional writer on the nature of human cognition. In reality I am a nonprofessional philosopher, and since 2003 I have been developing certain ideas as to how the brain may generate conscious thought. I conducted poster presentations of my thesis at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference at the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences in Budapest Hungary in 2007, in Tucson in 2008, and again in Tucson in 2010.

Should any professional philosophers and/or consciousness researchers be int…

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