RE: Seeing red
January 26, 2016 at 6:34 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2016 at 6:38 am by bennyboy.)
If the homunculus were a play, I'd liken it more to the stage than to the individual actors that play their various parts upon it. Whatever the actors do, to say they ARE the play doesn't make sense to me-- there must be some framework which brings them all into relationship with each other.
Similarly, even if all the actors of the mind are neural actions, and for each idea or perception you can isolate and reproduce neural correlates, I must still ask myself-- what is the context in which all these are brought together? To me, that's what mind is-- not the ideas or perceptions themselves, exactly, but the "space" in which they are brought together as experiences. And I'm still not so sure that there's anything to be found in the brain that represents this.
Similarly, even if all the actors of the mind are neural actions, and for each idea or perception you can isolate and reproduce neural correlates, I must still ask myself-- what is the context in which all these are brought together? To me, that's what mind is-- not the ideas or perceptions themselves, exactly, but the "space" in which they are brought together as experiences. And I'm still not so sure that there's anything to be found in the brain that represents this.