Pleasure and Joy

[bennyboy]

Its not that surprising when you think about it. Even in a simple computer application, multiple processes are going on in parallel under the surface, but on the user end, they appear quite unified.

Yes, but it is the conscious mind which imposes that sense of unity on the various pixels flashing on and off. There's a 3rd party involved. However, you cannot find a central physical entity in the brain which coordinates the various inputs into a unified whole. (again so far as I know)

That's where neuroscience comes in. We don' know yet that there isn't a specific section of brain responsible for this assembly. In fact, current studies suggest there may not be a single unifying principle. Different sections of brains may be responsible for joining different data-streams and yet other sections for joining those combined streams and so on and on.

That's what I'm talking about. So far as I know, there is one stream of consciousness, with various sense impressions and abstract ideas being coordinated within that one stream. That is how I experience my mind. I recognize that different parts of the brain bring in visual memory, current touch sensations, and chunk them into symbols that I can work with. I don't have a problem with that.

But where is this mental "space" on which all these projections end up being experienced? Just saying it's in the brain doesn't really do much, because it is that unified mental screen which defines my experience of my mind, and it is the one component which they can't find.

Let me put it this way. How do you know that if you remove ALL those sensory symbols, you don't still have a kind of content-less mind? Why not? If you remove all objects from space, you'd still have space right? Or would you?