-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote:
> Well now you have. It refers of course to the way the brain > unifies sense data into a coherent picture of the world as > a theatre that we are witnessing but when you look inside the > brain, no such theatre exists. It's all a clever bit of wiring > and sleight of hand. Or mind. Damn clever that. Very damn clever. For wires. "Who" (or "what") is fooled by the sleight? It is undoubtedly the case that if I gaze at a picture of Barry in a Parisian cafe some events occur in my brain. But from that it doesn't follow that what I *really* see are some events in my brain rather than Barry au cafe? "The persuasive imagery of the Cartesian Theater keeps coming back to haunt us laypeople and scientists alike even after its ghostly dualism has been denounced and exorcized" :: The often unacknowledged remnants of Cartesian dualism in modern materialistic theories of the mind :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_theater
