On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:18 PM, EdFromNH . <[email protected]> wrote: > With regard to your statement that consciousness does not require any new > physics, I agree, which you would know if you have read my initial post in > this thread. But as of the 2014 Toward a Science of Consciousness > conference, most of the leaders in the field of conscious theory had no > satisfactory explanation for our conscious awareness, and had said as much.
Can you explain how parts of this image appear to rotate? http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot-snakes/index.html I mean, it is perfectly obvious that it does, but only the parts you are not looking at directly, and only when you shift your gaze from one part of the image to another. Maybe it is an animation. The camera in your laptop must be tracking your eye movements, so it knows when and where to make the image move. But then you print the image on a piece of paper and it still moves. How is that possible? Maybe there is a fundamental property of the universe that makes certain images move like this, sort of like panpsychism or dualism, that is not detectable by any instrument other than your own mind. But that's OK. We don't need to test it. We can just accept it as an axiom. Or maybe your brain can play tricks on you. Maybe the cells in your retina have different response times to red and blue light, so that when you shift your gaze they activate the neurons in your peripheral vision that respond to movement. But you reject the second explanation. I mean, it is perfectly obvious that the world must be exactly like you perceive it. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
