Dennett's Predictive Bayesian Coding Theory
In 2012, at the "Evolution and Function of Consciousness" conference, the
distinguished philosopher Daniel Dennett presented a talk where he talked
about "The phenomenal access consciousness distinction". (Talk on YouTube).
In that talk, he proposes that consciousness can be explained by “predictive
bayesian coding” or Bayes' theorem.
Of course, the human brain is not literally aware of Bayes or his theorem,
but we believe that Dennett is essentially asserting that existing
techniques for predictive modeling, such as Bayesian inference methods, are
sufficient to form consciousness, and that human consciousness is composed
of processes that may be considered an analog or approximation of the more
precisely correct Bayesian inference. In this camp, we support this notion.
Although he acknowledges in that talk that there are compelling reasons that
make people want dualism to be valid, he also asserts that he cannot really
understand dualism. We also cannot understand dualism, and we assert that it
is not possible to really understand and accept dualism. Dennett argues that
Ned Block (a dualist) has inverted reasoning in that "he thinks ‘phenomenal’
consciousness is the causal bases of access consciousness while in fact it
is an effect of access consciousness, not a cause!" (1:05:45). We also
believe that 'phenomenal' things are emergent from consciousness, that
nothing phenomenal is necessary to form consciousness, and that nothing
phenomenal can exist outside of consciousness.
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