(January 14, 2019 at 2:07 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: Further, the fact that modules abstract information automatically, without our consciousness seeing the processes involved, means we live in a simulated reality in our brains. This is less a problem than if we thought we somehow perceived the external world directly. Our consciousness is not illusory but rather simulated.
Okay, let's examine this. We know for sure, under any model, that what we perceive is not as we perceive it. We symbolize greatly-- for example, we see a collection of QM particles as a flat desk, when there's no real flatness in wave functions.
But given this, what would be the difference between say a materialistic monism and an idealistic monism? How would you differentiate between them? How would you determine exactly WHAT our consciousness is simulating?
