RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 3, 2019 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2019 at 4:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 3, 2019 at 12:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: It seems to me that both the sense of consciousness, and the sense of self, are a kind of supervenient narrative-- a spontaneous mythology if you will: "Benjamin" is a conglomerate of ideas attached to a name, and while not nearly as pure as the Jesus idea or pagan god ideas, isn't really more representative of anything real than those are.
-and if that's what consciousness is, you possess that. The multiple drafts model posits exactly this. You're not actually experiencing things in the way that the cartesian model posits (no more than the robot is)...it's a story about what happened. You, are a story about what's happened. It wouldn't be difficult for a machine to possess an aar lik this (they already do)..and that aar would/could be what it used to respond so convincingly.
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