> > Lastly, about your question re. consciousness of extended objects that are > not concept-atoms. > > I think there is some confusion here about what I was trying to say (my > fault perhaps). It is not just the fact of those concept-atoms being at the > end of the line, it is actually about what happens to the analysis > mechanism. So, what I did was point to the clearest cases where people feel > that a subjective experience is in need of explanation - the qualia - and I > showed that in that case the explanation is a failure of the analysis > mechanism because it bottoms out. > > However, just because I picked that example for the sake of clarity, that > does not mean that the *only* place where the analysis mechanism can get > into trouble must be just when it bumps into those peripheral atoms. I > tried to explain this in a previous reply to someone (perhaps it was you): > it would be entirely possible that higher level atoms could get built to > represent [a sum of all the qualia-atoms that are part of one object], and > if that happened we might find that this higher level atom was partly > analyzable (it is composed of lower level qualia) and partly not (any > analysis hits the brick wall after one successful unpacking step). >
OK, I think I get that... I think that's the easy part ;-) Indeed, the analysis mechanism can get into trouble just due to its limited capacity Other aspects of the mind can pack together complex mental structures, which the analysis mechanism perceives as tokens with some evocative power, but which the analysis mechanism lacks the capacity to decompose into parts. So, these can appear to it as indecomposable too, in a related but slightly different sense from peripheral atoms... ben ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
