If no one's theory [in any given domain] works, it means that no one has a working theory, no?
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Replying to @Plinz @NeuroMyths
The “hard problem” is only a problem for those who fail to place organismic affect (homeostatic, emotional affect) at the foundation of their model. Once you conceptualize subjective experiences as an emergent characteristic of affect, the hard problem vanishes completely.
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To be replaced by the problem of claiming that a "conceptualisation of subjective experiences as an emergent characteristic of affect" bears any connection to what our actual subjective experiences actually are.
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @SimsYStuart and
more generally, having a Hard Problem is rather better than not noticing that you have a Problem.
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Now mapping the precise causal mechanisms (neurochemical and neuroarchitectural) which elaborate brainstem affect into cortical subjective experience is certainly a very, very hard problem. But that problem is not a conceptual problem. It’s just a problem of system complexity.
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The conceptual problem that I see, is mapping a '3rd person' description of a brain to 1st person subjective experience. There is no such mapping?
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I don’t think that the functional implementation of the mind and the conscious self exist in the same frame of reference. From the perspective of the self, phenomenal experience is primary, outside of it, there is no experience. The self is a story, the mind a story generator.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
The term "representation" seems more accurate than "story". Story has a connotation of being entirely made up. A representation, otoh, is a fitted curve.
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Replying to @mere_mortise @chrisfcarroll and
Yes, but you need to fit your curves in many dimensions, including the temporal one, which requires successive branching expansion over states in an event calculus, which I would call stories, because that's more concise than 'directed graph of the succession of events' or so.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
Just brainstorming other words for the nearly same thing: description, replica, adaptive computation, model, interpretation, approximation, abstraction, rendition, theory, hypothesis, estimate. "Temporal model" may be the closest thing without connotation of fake.
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In "Principles of Synthetic Intelligence", I decided to call this type of representations 'episodic scripts', which composed and connected scenes containing objects and transitions.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
"Episodic" seems good as the brain seems to deal with stable, temporal chunks more than continuous "video". Script has a connotation of predetermination. Maybe reproduction, replication, emulation, stimulation, simulacrum. Story is catchy though. "Best fitting story."
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Replying to @mere_mortise @chrisfcarroll and
In computer science, scripting languages allow branches and control structures, including nondeterministic transitions, so 'script' is an accurate term. The closest equivalent to 'script manipulating mental objects' in everyday natural language seems to be 'story'.
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