--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > > > --- 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!
Not "turtles all the way down"? > > 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 > > >
