On 04 Oct 2017, at 22:50, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 10/4/2017 7:01 AM, Terren Suydam wrote:
In this case the pronoun problems can be resolved by dint of the
fact that the language processing areas of the brain are largely
localized to one half. It's an interesting question to me whether
the non-linguistic half, when separated, is self-aware. My
intuition is that it's not.
I agree. It's difficult to say how self-awareness can be
implemented except via some kind of symbolism. I could be based on
self-images, but language seems like a more compressed way of
storing useful memories and conceptuallization of the self.
I tend to disagree. I would say that only the non linguistic side of
the brain is conscious, and the other part is the one doing the
confabulation. Or perhaps I would say that the non linguistic part is
1p-conscious, where the linguistic part if 3p-conscious, or
representationally conscious, or aware of the representation. In our
culture it tends to dominate. This would also mean that despite being
mute, the separated non linguistic half is conscious, but cannot
acknowledge the fact through words.
Bruno
Brent
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