RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 3, 2019 at 8:59 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2019 at 8:59 am by Belacqua.)
(January 3, 2019 at 8:44 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: What indicates to me that you have a problem with scientific consciousness studies is that you seem to be taking a reductionistic approach. This is indicated by the way you frame your questions, like "How do electrochemical activities present themselves to us as experiences?" In other words, you seem to want some simple answer to this question, when the answer must necessarily be very complex and discussed a bit at a time. You guys therefore seem impatient with a point-at-a-time approach.
Why do you think a complex answer will present itself? What bits can be assembled in a chain to lead us from electrochemical events to experiences? What point-at-a-time approach offers an answer to the question?
We can find out various things about brain activity. We can find out various things about experience. Nobody's denying that. But the study of the realm of mental phenomena is not the study of electrochemical events in the brain.
Quote: Bennyboy especially keeps saying, "What does that have to do with anything?" in so many words.
That's because you continually wander away from the point and make unrelated arguments.
Recently he has been saying something very simple: that from the "outside," we can't tell the difference between a clever automaton and a subject with mental experiences. Bringing up evolution in response to this point is irrelevant.
Anyway, you seem to be coming around to the idea that neuroscience itself has nothing to tell us about poetry.
