Consciousness Trilemma

[pocaracas]

I admit I mostly skimmed all of your and Khem's posts, but I noticed this bit about what is perceived doesn't happen simultaneous with the actual world events.
This reminded me of the concept of Real-Time Control... essentially, to act fast enough so that the system doesn't change from when it was sensed to the time of acting upon it.

So, as I see it, the time it takes for our brains to process information and make a conscious decision is, for the most part, irrelevant. We operate in Real-Time.
Our present is a present with a small and mostly irrelevant delay.

It may be mostly irrelevant to it's operation (eliminative materialists don't think, for example, that this delay causes it not to work) - but it is very relevant with regards to an accurate description -of- that work..and whether or not that accurate description matches our experience and descriptions of it.

In their view, that's just one of many discrepancies between consciousness as-described...as-experienced, and what our brains are actually doing.

I've mentioned before on this forum that I think our awareness, our self that is seemingly detached from our brain, is at a sort of abstraction level, "removed" from the brain's inner workings, but intimately dependent on it.

Like in a programming language. You have to define the basic numbers, then you can bring them together in arrays, then matrices and even n-dimensional matrices. At some point, you have an object which is a matrix and there are some operations that you can perform on it and with it. And you prefer to use this object and these operations without thinking of all the processing that goes on under the hood, down to each number and memory location and stuff that you don't care about when wanting to add a matrix to another.
Our consciousness doesn't need to be aware of all the workings of the individual neurons... there seems to have been no evolutionary drive for that. But it works fast enough for most of our interactions with the real world to seem as instantaneous, or, to use better terminology, in real time.

If one wants to map out all the neurons and neuron interactions that collectively "produce" our consciousness, then, yes such a delay will be there.
I don't get why you say there is a discrepancy...