What I'm looking at I think is even more primitive than abstraction. Prior to representation, there must be a presentation of perceptual content such that direct intervention is experienced as possible and desirable. Intelligence as a refinement of will.
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Why would any such thing as 'experience' 'emerge', and how? The brain needs no models, it's got hardware states controlling all behaviors, just like the computer.
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The models are macro state descriptions of the brain's micro states. You (a model of an experiencing subject) exist within the models, not within the brain.
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I dispute that view. Computation in the brain results in subjective experience and behavior (including problem solving). Can we ignore the substrate achieving the same result? That presupposes either replicating exactly the same computation (i.e. brain's structural complexity) 1/
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Or just doing a subset of the computation knowing which parts are superfluous for achieving the same experience and capabilities. The reductionism of the brain functioning related to subjective experience to the high level information processing is oversimplified and unfounded 2/
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