| Re: If brain work like bio-computer...? ? ? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: toolytooly Date: Sep 2, 2008 01:51
> Then give me another word or phrase other than "illusion" or "qualia" that
> will be understood in the engineering causal sense, and
> not in any folklore magic sense. I have tended to "insane delusion", but
> that
> might be a bit strong or judgmental. Besides I do not trust psychology, it
> has
> no engineering basis.
>
> BTW your blind man will still experience the quale of "tone". There is no
> "tone" out there, only vibrating air. His culturally based verbal
> representation
> of that tone is not at all the same as an evolutionary based brain
> representation of retina stimulation.
Several considerations. Pain, Fear, no off switch. And we still can't
explain consciousness. Is there a 'will'? Why am I alive there Fred? Why
am I awake, and experiencing all this? How do you shut this damn thing off
without pain, and without evoking the fear that prevents the shut off?
Where do these come from? I'd much rather hear about how you have licked
your own fear and pain and if you've found your own off switch. God...how
we need an off switch!!! [your inspiration]
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