I don't think our experience is a model of anything, even though we can model some experiences as coinciding and controlling others.
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The brain cannot experience or observe anything by itself, so it makes a model of what the observer would be, and what it is experiencing. The content of the model is what you experience, and you are the model of that observer.
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Since I don't see how models (which are just mathematical abstractions) can have experiences, I just frame it as the relationship between two different types of experiences: the experience of an external physical world existing, and that of selfhood and private experiences.
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The model does not have an experience, the experience is the content of the model. Based on the content, the model is updated and actions are executed (such as moving your mouth and making statements about your experiences).
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Sounds like property or predicate dualism.
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Everything that happens in the mental world has a computational implementation. Implementations can supervene on each other. The lowest causally closed computational layer is physics. All layers are models that allow to predict a part of the evolution of universe's state vector.
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The paper is making an obvious and compelling point (I came across Chalmer's position on it at a Science of Consciousness conference). It's hardly novel though
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What are these two different models and where are they in the brain?
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Each cortical column (cc) has its own model of the world, which includes a guess of the other cc’s models. So not only 2, but 1000’s of cc models compete. Conscious awareness of a model (qualia) resides, at any one time, in the one cc that wins the vote. Pls vote:
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