Sounds like you're reducing understanding to analogy.
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No! If I understand addition, I have found a mapping to neural circuitry that can compute sums. If I explain addition, I model the nature of that mapping to a more basic computation, such as incrementation. Neither is an analogy.
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Oh, that's how you meant it. How do you think this works for (aspects of) consciousness, qualia, etc?
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Consciousness is a model of the contents of an integrated protocol of your attentional processes. Qualia are the memories of the self about those contents. The self is a fictional character generated by your mind.
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Consciousness is a model? Qualia are memories? You're a fictional character created by my mind! :)
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Minsky: "since you are compelled to find a something to explain the things you do–why, then, that something needs a name; you call it 'I'."
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Minsky was very opposed to taking drugs or submitting to spiritual experience, which is why he may have missed states of depersonalization, where you still do things and know about them but there is no “I”.
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In short: drugs let us discover more of possible mind space and possible states, but I think it's a grave mistake to assume they reveal some ultimate truth (About the self, for example)..
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If course. They put the nervous system in all sorts of possible configurations. Some of those have deleterious effects on people’s epistemology, but if one can avoid that, the experiment can contribute important insights. Such as integration of the self being a separate process.
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.."the experiment can contribute important insights"... absolutely. I am happy to report I (finally) tripped on shrooms on my 33th birthday on Texel. :)
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It is not strictly necessary to do it yourself, of course, bit to take it seriously. Erowid is an incredible resource of case studies, and there is also a lot of literature.
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