Solving the mind body problem does not involve understanding the relationship between two physical entities, but between two mental models, and requires modeling how the mind forms these models and the relationship between them.
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Replying to @SlaytonBenjamin @Malcolm_Ocean
The mind is the set of functional mechanisms that produces the representations that the self experiences. I think of it as an AI that runs on the brain and generates a VR that predicts sensory data (the world) and ideas about it.
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Would you comment on Susan Blackmore’s opinion that inner self is just illusion created by competing memes in their effort to replicate themselves? Any relations to your model?
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So you consider the mind and the self to be separate objects? I think that if there is no self then it cannot even be an illusion. There is only the illusion created by the mind that ones self is in it impossibly.
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There is a self, but it is a simulacrum created by the mind.
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A simulacrum of what or who? If it is created by the mind how can it be a separate object? Is it a simulacrum of itself?
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The self is the simulacrum of a person as a unified, perspectival, experiencing, intentional object. It is as separate from the mind as a computer game character is from the game engine.
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Are you referring to the mind and brain as the same thing? My understanding is that the mind is not the brain and is like software. I consider the brain itself to be life software. The character depends on a game engine.
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