On 7/10/2021 12:20 PM, Tomas Pales wrote:
On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 2:49:07 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:19 PM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote:
/>You are conscious of certain parts of your brain/
I've never actually seen it
Your eyes receive visual signals from outside your head, not from the
inside, so you don't see your own brain.
soif I hadn't read about human anatomy in books I wouldn't even
know that I had a brain. How can I be conscious of something that
I don't even know exists?
Neuroscience says that we are not directly conscious of the external
world but we are directly conscious of its neural representations in
our brain. I would say that's because we/are/ those representations.
I think this kind of talk puts far too much on consciousness. Conscious
thoughts seem to pop into my head with no antecedents, yet they relate
to past and distant things in my experience. The Poincare' effect shows
that even the most abstract thought is largely unconscious.
Brent
So you are conscious of parts of your brain but not of those
properties of the brain that look like gray matter when they are
looked at through the eyes. Instead, the properties of the brain you
are conscious of look like a red tomato, taste like chocolate or sound
like music.
You may wonder how can a piece of gray matter look like a red tomato?
I think it's because only those properties of the brain matter that
are perceptible by the eyes look gray. The brain matter has many other
properties that cannot be seen but some of them may feel like when you
are looking at a red tomato.
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