RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 2, 2019 at 4:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2019 at 4:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Honestly...it doesn't take a deep understanding of subjective experience or consciousness to answer the topical deepities that internet randos bandy around.
The OPQ was a wonderful demonstration of that. Whatever deeper understanding of consciousness that we may lack...we do know that our brains are junkies, we do know that this is why we enjoy [insert anything here]. Similarly, whatever deeper understanding of consciousness we may lack, we do know that it's tied at the hip to brains and nervous systems. We could waffle around with distributed ns, or artifical consciousness...but we'd only be coming up with brain analogs as though they threatened that basic observation.
The OPQ was a wonderful demonstration of that. Whatever deeper understanding of consciousness that we may lack...we do know that our brains are junkies, we do know that this is why we enjoy [insert anything here]. Similarly, whatever deeper understanding of consciousness we may lack, we do know that it's tied at the hip to brains and nervous systems. We could waffle around with distributed ns, or artifical consciousness...but we'd only be coming up with brain analogs as though they threatened that basic observation.
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