How is consciousness generated by the brain? Interview at Science of Consciousness Conference 2018https://youtu.be/mkROH1QlDi0?t=13m33s …
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Replying to @Plinz
Our brains aren't generating this story alone, though.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
How could someone else help a brain to produce a simulation, if that someone else is dreamed in the same brain?
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Replying to @Plinz
I'm not a metaphysical solipsist although I wouldn't have to self-identify as one for the theory to be correct. That interview didn't exist until I clicked on it?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I think that there are other minds similar to mine, so I am not a solipsist. But I also don't think that we have direct access to a shared reality. We are just creating dreams with somewhat isomorphic properties. Each dream is self-contained. Every brain dreams its own universe.
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Replying to @Plinz
How do you know that you're not simply dreaming of the existence of other minds similar to yours? Does solipsism preclude the possibility of other dreaming minds? You can still be a solipsist even if you think there are other minds, because you are the one thinking it.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
The theory that there is a physical world with a ground truth, and that it contains brains that generate minds with dreams of a world similar to mine yields very good predictions.
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Replying to @Plinz
I'm with you in theory, but in practice I'd still love to see the way the characters line up in the similar dreams. If the dreams are similar, then does the character appear consistent in the various similar minds?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Category theory suggests that there are only so many useful fractals. Dennis Morris suggests there is only one possible physics. Perhaps there is also a limit on how many kinds of useful models brains can generate?
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Replying to @Plinz
Yes that's very likely true about useful models, and much of the variance is likely minor. Those little eccentricities repeat like lips in the same shape on different faces. But that isn't what I mean.
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It seems to me that most people are not very good at perceiving each other, i.e. they miss important principal components in the patterns. Cultures prod for certain parameters though. As a result there are a number of dominant styles in which people are perceived by other people.
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