--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost1uk@...> wrote: > > > > -- 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?
Why, more wires of course! > 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 >
