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Rudy Garns

The Big Questions: What is consciousness? - 0 views

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consciousness self mind 150 AZB Parfit

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  • Rudy Garns on 13 Jan 10
     
    18 November 2006 - New Scientist
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How is the internet changing the way you think? - 0 views

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Internet thinking mind technology CDC AZB

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    EDGE 2010
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Multiple drafts model - 0 views

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consciousness mind grue AZB multiple-drafts

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  • Our conscious experience is of events that can usually be objectively timed quite precisely
  • there must be a quite specific moment at which each item makes its entrance in our experience.
  • the timing represented in consciousness
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  • the timing of the conscious representing
  • The work done by the imaginary homunculus in the Cartesian Theater must be broken up and distributed
  • doesn’t have to be done again in a central re-presentation process
  • massively parallel process
  • Exactly when did I (as opposed to various parts of my brain) become informed, aware, conscious, of some event?’
  • replaced the metaphor of multiple drafts with the metaphor of fame in the brain
  • not a precisely datable transition in the brain
  • the accumulation of a wide variety of sequelae
  • One team in your brain has taken charge while another team is still sorting out the implications.
  • Like the transition from night to day
  • speciation, in which the same curious retrospective status can be transparently observed.
  • “retrospective coronations”
  • a “neural correlate of consciousness”
  • Andaman Islanders
  • Inuit
  • How much influence is enough for fame?
  • consciousness is not what it seems to be
  • whatever event in the brain happens to boost some aspect of the current content-fixations into prominence,
  • a new stimulus that draws attention (resources) to a particular area of visual space or a particular segment on the auditory stream, for instance, thereby promoting the influence (the fame, the clout) of whatever is occurring there and rendering it reportable and recollectable–if the other drafts competing for this influence permit it.
  • Finding the recurrent processes (which is likely, given the adroitness exhibited by those who drive on auto-pilot) would still leave open the question of whether to call those contents conscious or merely potentially conscious.
  • the historical property of having won a temporally local competition with sufficient decisiveness to linger long enough to enable recollection at some later time.
  • because our interpersonal communications, our discussions and comparisons, generate both the terms and the topics of consciousness.
  • Rudy Garns on 30 Aug 08
     
    "The multiple drafts model of consciousness (Dennett, 1991, 1996, 1998, Dennett and Kinsbourne, 1992) was developed as an alternative to the perennially attractive, but incoherent, model of conscious experience Dennett calls Cartesian materialism, the idea that after early unconscious processing occurs in various relatively peripheral brain structures "everything comes together" in some privileged central place in the brain-which Dennett calls the Cartesian Theater --for "presentation" to the inner self or homunculus. There is no such place in the brain, but many theories seem to presuppose that there must be something like it." (Dennet & Akins, Scholarpedia)
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