On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:53 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/18/2012 10:31 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
No it is absolutely necessary. If you had no knowledge regarding
what you were seeing, no qualia at all, you would be blind and
dysfunctional.
You might cite blund sighr as a counter example, but actually i
think it is evidence of modularity if mind. Those with blind sight
appear to have a disconnect between the visual processing parts of
their brain and others. For example, they may still have reflexes,
like the ability to avoid obsticles or catch a thrown ball, but the
language center of their brain is disconnected, and so the part of
the brain that talks says it can't see.
I agree. But it raises a question about the woman who feels pain
but doesn't care. Who is it that doesn't care? Obviously the
conscious person who tells you they don't care. But is there
another, inarticulate person who feels the pain? or does care?
Brent,
Good question, and a scary thought.
I think this might be likely in the case of a fully split brain, but
correspondingly less likely the smaller the isolated (disconnected)
part of the brain is.
Unconsciousness under anesthesia results from brain regions becoming
isolated from each other. Maybe they are still conscious but cut off
from the memory, motion control, and speaking areas, so we have no
evidence of the consciousness of the sub-regions.
Jason
Brent
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