In your formulation, how do you acquire awareness? And, can I take 'true cause' to mean that which is causally operative in your motivational rewards model? (I apologize if I'm not using your terms correctly here.)
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The only way of acquiring awareness works by tasking a part of your brain to create a model that guesses what another part of your brain is doing.
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What triggers the impetus to acquire awareness in this way?
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Usually the suspicion of a regulation problem.
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Ok. Would you agree that the suspicion (whether that's a thought or a feeling) of a regulation problem simply arises without intentionality?
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Metacognition can be intentional, but cognitive behaviors often form from outside of the currently active behavior cluster before they take over, which could indeed be described as "arising without intentionality".
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Perfect. (And, thanks for continuing to indulge me.) Let's take the case of intentional metacognition: the active cluster, whatever it comprises, is what is determining the character of the conscious experience, is that correct?
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If so, would you attribute intentionality to the invocation of specific limits for the network in question?
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I don't understand this question! What does it mean to "invoke a specific limit for a network"?
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Sorry, I regretted changing the formulation the moment I pressed reply. I meant to say that the cluster-in-question represents a set of synapses(?) -- the determination of that specific set is something we cannot deliberately invoke? Correct?
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Think of it more as an attractor; very different behavioral patterns may share the same neurons and synapses at different times. The self does not exist on the level of neurons or brains. It is a fragmented story generated by the brain, mostly for prediction and learning.
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