RE: Seeing red
February 1, 2016 at 10:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 10:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Nand2tetris bro, it'll change your life. Building computers used to be my whole life, now it's just my obsession, my hobby. If you hope to understand mind by reference to ANNs, for example, you might find it illuminating to know the specifics of how the hardware is manufactured and why it works the way it does that those ANNs run on. What is true of a single nand gate is not true of a computational system as a whole, even though -any- comp system can be made leveraging nothin but nand. If you see nuerons as the components of a system in the way that gates are the components of a cpu, focusing on the components alone might not tell you what you want to know about the system in it's entirety.
Personally, I think this is how I would answer to jorg. What is experiencing? The system is experiencing, not any specific part in isolation. A description of the systems operation is a description of experience. We certainly haven't found any "command center" of the brain that's pulling all the levers. We wouldn't expect to, though, that's a feature of top down intentional architecture, and our brains are, as we understand them, no such thing.
Personally, I think this is how I would answer to jorg. What is experiencing? The system is experiencing, not any specific part in isolation. A description of the systems operation is a description of experience. We certainly haven't found any "command center" of the brain that's pulling all the levers. We wouldn't expect to, though, that's a feature of top down intentional architecture, and our brains are, as we understand them, no such thing.
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