ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses computationalist approaches to neuroscience employ many of the machines and technologies available for mechanistically and objectively investigating the body, dissection, fMRI scans, in an attempt to objectively explain the mind and consciousness, but the mind and consciousness, precisely by virtue of being subjective phenomena, are invisible to these technologies, just as people's holistic, invested, subjective perception of other living bodies is invisible to them. Faith in 'information processing' results from the development of digital computing, and the division between hardware and software. Materiality is devalued as simply the contingent physical instantiation of a system necessary to support the important business of information processing. The book suggests that the tendency to project the attributes of bodies out into the environment results from innate features of human perception, and the history of the body, machine relationship certainly serves as an example of this.
