On 10/12/2014 2:31 PM, LizR wrote:
On 12 October 2014 16:11, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Just like I have a problem with Bruno's theory because it imputes
consciousness to
information processing like DNA, the "nothing but information processing"
theory
needs to explain what is different about my conscious information
processing and the
great majority of my information processing which is subconscious. Is there
"awareness" associated with that subconscious information processing that
is just
not *my* awareness?
Exactly. I believe Mr Dennett has an explanation for this, along the lines of awareness
being "a user illusion, like a desktop".
That seems to assume user who is having the illusion. And that may just be a view we're
"tricked" into taking by our language, but it still leaves the question of exactly what
kind of information processing produces a "user illusion"? I think Bruno's idea is too
expansive. I've offered my own idea: that it's producing an internal narrative journal
for purposes of learning and future reference.
Brent
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