RE: Free Will
September 1, 2016 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 10:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2016 at 10:35 am)Yoo Wrote: I'm sorry, but I don't really understand your last paragraph. Before I really reply could you explain what you mean by " and relatively less third person models of anything." and "or else we wouldn't have that third person ability."
Do you mean thoughts that you experience, that obvisously aren't direct perceptions from your senses?
No, that wouldn;t be an issue of perspective. A third person experience...an experience of yourself as viewed from a distance in realtion to other things. Like placing yourself on a map. That is a direct perception of your senses...it's just arranged in a different way in the simulation we call perspective from, say, 1st person. You know where you are on that map because you can see both the map and your surroundings. You know what you look like, you know what trees look like. You've seen a creek. Now, our brains can obviously arrange all of this information into the "little man behind the eyes" pov...but they can also step back and give us the "bird overhead" view.
In neither case are we observing brain functions...the brain isn't looking at itself doing things. It's aggregating data, simulating our environment, and our relationship -to- things in our environment.
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