On 7/3/2011 1:36 AM, selva wrote:
On Jul 1, 4:23 pm, selva kumar<selvakr1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is consciousness causally effective ?
I found this question in previous threads,but I didn't find a answer.
I believe consciousness is a monitoring system (aka awareness)
When our hand is moved obeying some computations,there is a ON-SCREEN
DISPLAY going on in the brain: " my hand is moving "
When we are learning something ,DISPLAY : "your are learning this and
this " and saves it with a lot of tags in it,so that when you learn
something new which includes a tagged word,it opens the old saved data
and updates it.
Without this monitoring and liaison system our brain stumbles.
I mostly agree with this theory. I'm not sure I would call it
"monitoring" since once you learn to do something, like ride a bicycle
or apply modus pollens, you do it without consciously thinking about
it. So in a sense you stumble *less* when not being "monitored". But I
agree that consciousness has something to do with learning; with
selecting what is important enough to pay attention to and to put into
memory. It's not just passive recording; it's constructing a
narrative. Which is one reason human memory is unreliable. It may also
be why we have few memories before learning to talk.
Brent
And this monitoring system is acts only when the actions are related
to the cerebrum of the brain and not to cerebellum where primary motor
functions are saved.
This is why we are not concentrating on our speech while we are
speaking.
Thus,in my belief, in the absence of this monitoring system,the
functions of cerebrum gets affected but not that of cerebellum.
Thats why we can speak even while we are asleep. so,casually effective
in case of cerebrum but not in case of cerebellum.
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