RE: A Conscious Universe
February 7, 2015 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2015 at 11:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 7, 2015 at 7:54 am)bennyboy Wrote: No it doesn't. The screen is a grid of pixels which turn on and off, right? I think you're trying to equivocate against the same way of looking at things that was making you cranky just a few posts ago.The pixel map (which is, as far as your screen is concerned, many things, yes...but as far as the map and your experience of it just one) is generated by your processor and all associated memory. There's a hell of alot of things -actually going on-, but, what you see, is the bouncing ball - what the screen "sees' is a pixel map. The screen can no more see the gates and memory which generated the map than you can see the working of your own head. Each proceeds, however, with the information it has in the language it understands.
Does this not seem to you to be a case of multiple processes manifesting itself as a single experience, and is it so surprising that this would be so - however it was accomplished (short of a little man looking through the windows of your/the screens eyes)? Aren;t you explicitly invoking an executive summary of experience in the first place? If that is what is required, why would it be different, what would be so mystifying about it? If you ask for the solution to 1+1 do you need to see the problem written out and a description of the theory that underpins that solution plus the schematics of whatever machinery was involved, do you need to see all of that..... or is "2"- what you're looking for?
Ask yourself this....what do you think would be more useful if a boar was charging you - an exhaustive summary of every little click and tic - every minority report and all possible interpretations from each individual "operator", or, do you think a summary like "a boar is charging at me" is what the situation calls for? I always try to keep in mind that this machinery evolved to find dinner (and prevent us from becoming dinner) - not for introspection or explanation of process. If a water clock could run the human system and keep us alive long enough to breed it wouldn't surprise me to find a water clock in our heads. Brute force, task specific - no considerations, pass/fail is life or death...not truth or accuracy.
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