On the exocerebrum

Resumen

This is an exchange of letters by email occurred in 2005. They reflect a discussion on fundamental issues of the study of consciousness and the brain. The starting point was Bartra’s text on the exocerebrum. This text is now expanded into a book published in English by Cambridge University Press in 2014: Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will. All Harnad’s texts are in italics.