Are Myths Valuable?

[Alan V]

It's the operational processes that are doing the monitoring, attending, observing and adjusting.  It's the management processes that are doing the selecting and strategy deployment.  It's the governance processes that are evaluating, dashboarding (is that a word?) and directing towards new strategies.

What do you mean by "mechanical cues"?

In the discussed example, an alarm clock is a mechanical cue. Remembering that it's Sunday with nothing to cue one externally is not.

Reductionists point out simple examples to support their premise, but it is typically in much more complex examples where the obverse can be observed.

I'm not seeing the problem.

The problem is that emergent properties like consciousness require complexity, so of course they "disappear" when simple examples are all that are considered. If you take a bird apart and it no longer flies, you haven't proven that birds can't fly.

But you seem to have a much more elaborate system to break down all of the processes than any typical reductionist. However, my experiences with reductionists are that they want to exclude the potential causal efficacy of consciousness from their equations, apparently because they think the topic is too "wooy" to be addressed by materialists. I think that approach is irresponsible for any number of reasons.