(March 16, 2016 at 11:20 am)bennyboy Wrote: Show me something in all this process that ISN'T an interface with something else. Where does the buck stop, and we can say: "Here. This is where a bunch of electro-chemical signals is experienced"? What is the principle by which all the hundreds or thousands of separate circuits firing in the brain are coordinated into a single sense of agency? In what "space" are processes in different parts of the brains brought together in this way?
I think the real issue is seeing the mind as a thing, rather than as a process. Nicholas Humphries has written a lot of good stuff about this, but the essence of it is that consciousness arises as one part of the brain observes another part in action, analyzing it and operating on its output. It's been a long time since I've read any Humphries, so forgive me if I've misstated anything -- and also, iirc, there's no evidence for his suppositions, simply intriguing guesswork on his part.
I'm sure any mistakes in this post will be corrected forthwith.