Of course, Dan was playing the role of the magician here. Oh, and a bit of the con man. Note how he led the audience down the path from the start of the talk to have them arrive at his conclusions.
Also, it is worthy to note that his examples were about the visual sense and how we interpret it. Yes, this sense is one that is used a lot. And, he has clearly ignored the other senses as well as that aspect of consciousness that is not based upon the senses. So, all in all, he was a good entertainer. Also, as current as views like Simon’s are, “The product of the bio- electric, electro-chemical energy in the brain. Like a burning candle produces heat, the brain produces consciousness.” - Simon …saying that consciousness is bio-electrical and electro-chemical energy, using an analogy as he did about a candle, is like saying that consciousness is the product of those trillions of cells that Dennett suggests is a ‘bag of tricks’! Of course he does no more than wave his hands and produce a light show for the rubes. Too many limit the notion of consciousness to either what is thought and/or a result of a few of our senses. While this adapts to our culture’s current mythology, it too is but a technological light show. On Sep 4, 7:34 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > That was an interesting clip Molly thanks for shareing. > > I would say though that questions about conciousness would need to be > fully, I think there are marked differancs between asking what > conciosness is, and asking how it works. > > Dan Dennett in this clip apeared to me to be talking more about > concious desicions, or acting conciously and the differances between > this and the automatic process that our brains take without our > concious say so, or perhaps unconcious process of the brain. > > Which really does not answer the question you posed. > > So I would say that I explain conciouness as a property of the phycial > brain, and I would say that to be concioues means merely to know that > you exist as an independant enterty, and can tell that there are > others around who like wise exists as individual entities. > > On 4 Sep, 14:59, sjewins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The product of the bio-electric, electro-chemical energy in the brain. > > > Like a burning candle produces heat, the brain produces consciousness. > > > On Sep 4, 9:48 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > How do you explain consciousness? > > > >http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/102-Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
