Every few years, there seems to be some brain theory that appears to have immense explanatory power to a lot of people and turns out to be largely off the mark, like "left brain/right brain", "mirror neurons", and now "dopamine reward". Will this ever stop? And what's next?
The problem is not simplicity, it is superstition. How cognition is distributed between hemispheres, or what chemical is used to signal anticipated vs. actual reward in what context should be largely irrelevant for our thinking about our own thinking.
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The difference is that you cannot recall experiential access to distributed operators. Analytical thought can be experientially remembered because it consists of local operators on low dimensional, discrete representations, which are usually abstractions.
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That's a good way to say it. The nature of parallel high dimensional computation is something our sequential consciousness is unable to grasp. Thoughts coming from intuition just appears to arise from nowhere. Our intuition is however formed from our lifelong experience.
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