[agi] This is homunculus fallacy, no? [WAS Re: Common Sense Consciousness...]

2008-02-29 Thread Richard Loosemore
Mike Tintner wrote: Eh? Move your hand across the desk. You see that as a series of snapshots? Move a noisy object across. You don't see a continuous picture with a continuous soundtrack? Let me give you an example of how impressive I think the brain's powers here are. I've been thinking

Re: [agi] This is homunculus fallacy, no? [WAS Re: Common Sense Consciousness...]

2008-02-29 Thread Bob Mottram
On 29/02/2008, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are doing is saying that to understand visual (or other) images, or more generally to understand sequences like sequences of words in a sentence, the mind MUST replay these on some internal viewing screen. Instead of a

Re: [agi] This is homunculus fallacy, no? [WAS Re: Common Sense Consciousness...]

2008-02-29 Thread Richard Loosemore
Bob Mottram wrote: On 29/02/2008, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are doing is saying that to understand visual (or other) images, or more generally to understand sequences like sequences of words in a sentence, the mind MUST replay these on some internal viewing screen.

Re: [agi] This is homunculus fallacy, no? [WAS Re: Common Sense Consciousness...]

2008-02-29 Thread Charles D Hixson
Richard Loosemore wrote: Mike Tintner wrote: Eh? Move your hand across the desk. You see that as a series of snapshots? Move a noisy object across. You don't see a continuous picture with a continuous soundtrack? Let me give you an example of how impressive I think the brain's powers here