RE: A Conscious Universe
February 7, 2015 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2015 at 12:49 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 7, 2015 at 11:16 am)IATIA Wrote:This is a plausible-sounding narrative. But you can take any quality-- real or not-- and spin it with an evolutionary narrative-- correct or not-- and be overcome with the truthiness of it. At some point, "Prolly good for survival, therefore evolution" has to give way to some real answers about how things work. In this case, I'm not asking for an evolutionary narrative-- I'm asking for ideas about a physical mechanism that could take function in disparate parts of the brain and assemble them into a singular, subjective experience. Where does the subjective agency come from?(February 5, 2015 at 7:06 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I have a question about this. Why is it that multiple (VERY multiple) processes manifest as single experiences (like for example the taste of chocolate)?The brain merges everything to a simple experience. Take the eyes for example. The image on the retina (which is composed of numerous rods and cones ('pixels')) and you have two of these. If all this information was presented in it's individual form, it would be too much information for the qualia to evaluate. Instead, the brain does this for you and you 'see' an image rather than millions of 'pixels'. If you consciously had to evaluate this information, you would be eaten before you knew what was coming at you. Evolution at it's finest.
