Soul dust

Fort those of you who sometimes entertain that our class discussions may be too "out there", check this article in the New Statesman about the idea of the mind.  A paragraph like this should not be that strange:

Just because neural activity is a necessary condition of consciousness, it does not follow that it is a sufficient condition of consciousness, still less that it is identical with it. And Darwinising human life confuses the organism Homo sapiens with the human person, biological roots with cultural leaves. Nevertheless, the coupling of neuromania and Darwinitis has given birth to emerging disciplines based on neuro-evolutionary approaches to human psychology, economics, social science, literary criticism, aesthetics, theology and the law.

What do you think? And good luck on the midterm!