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[Neuroscience] To AE (was making sense...)

Glen M. Sizemore gmsizemore2 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 28 07:31:48 EST 2006


AE: Your feelings are always kind of virtual: Nerve signals are reaching
your brain, get interpreted, trigger new signals. What you are seeing,
hearing, feeling is not the exact input of your nerves but a mapping of
these inputs to your internal virtual reality.





GS: Think about the notion that what we see is some sort of distorted copy 
of the world. According to this view, the world is copied (albeit 
upside-down and distorted) on the retina. This copy is then split up into 
parts and sent scrambling around the brain, but its sum total is still some 
kind of representation (actually, this gives rise to the pseudo-problem 
called the "binding problem"). This process continues on and on, but not 
infinitely. At some point there must be some other part of the brain that 
"sees" or otherwise "utilizes this information." But that would mean that 
there is a sort of seeing or "information utilization" that does not require 
copies. But why can seeing the world not be of this sort?



I started a new post because somehow I have been prevented from replying to 
AE's post under the original thread. Anyone know how that is possible?




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