Seeing red

[Angrboda]

The brain isn't the system.  The system includes all the parts of the feedback loop, including the efferent body, the world we are interacting with, and our perceptual systems.

If the entire universe is the system, then how are we to arbitrarily call subsystems "ideas," and others "just stuff happening"?  We are connected, at least by gravity, to everything in the universe, are we not?

I explained earlier how the significance is constrained by what the channels of feedback accept. Stronger feedback means more interactions per given time with the specific channels which constrain what parts are and are not significant. So the intentional idea cannot consist of any light in the non-visible spectrum if the feedback channel in question is our eyes. Try thinking about what a red apple looks like in the ultra-violet. Got that image? Of course not, because you have no feedback channel that communicates data concerning ultra-violet light.