Is that why the fictional characters are so predictable?
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All characters are fictional to some degree.
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The language of qualia is similar to the language that a synthesizer uses to produce sound and music. The integration of qualia into a first person perspective is similar to how a novelist creates a fictional character that experiences qualia.
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Trying to understand it. Have some naive doubts. Brain like a novelist creates characters experiencing the world. So, 1) Why brain creates such a fictional character and then feeding data making him feel like experiencing them? Whats the evolutionary advantage or value of +
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creating such fictional characters? 2) What about suicide i.e. the character decides to end himself thereby ending not only him but the novelist(brain)? Why such free hand given to fictional characters? 3) How evolution has arrived with only one such structure of producing+
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Why not this way: consciousness is a thing generated by the neurosystem that is as real or fictional like other things like washing machines or tables.
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Washing machines are models created by minds, but over patterns outside. Consciousness is a model of the contents of our attention, but these contents never literally existed. It’s a model of virtual processes: if these experiences would have taken place, what would they be like?
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I really think self is not necessary for awareness/experience/consciousness. With psychedelics people can have ego death in which there is no self, and they still experience things.
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You are correct. There are states of depersonalization in which the contents of attentional awareness are no longer integrated into a self.
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