Carley, Adam L.

From Philosopedia

Carley, Adam L. (20th Century) Carley, who holds a number of patents and has been instrumental in the starting of several business, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In Free Inquiry (Fall 1994) he wrote, “What is ‘Consciousness’?”, concluding that when scientists eventually determine the answer the genetic blueprint of consciousness will be so all-encompassing it “might fit on your PC’s hard disk.” But consciousness-explaining, he holds, will not be accepted as comfortably as evolution was. “A breakthrough not in science but in education would be required for that.” The article won the 1994 Selma Forkosch Award for the journal’s best article that year.