It depends on what you understand as "mind". I think of it as a system that is capable of modeling an environment, and its own interaction with that environment, in our case in the service of regulation of the dynamics of organisms under conditions of multi-level selection.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
My personal self is story about a fictional character that my brain tells itself. Phenomenal experience happens to that character, not to the brain. The simulated character gets access to the language center and tells itself and everyone else how very blue the blue looks today.
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So do you mind if I come back to this (I took “we are not conscious in actuality” as a statement of pzombie-ism/illusionism?) & prod the story? 1st: the link to language centre seems beside the point? I often admire the blueness of the sky without talking about it. /
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @Grady_Booch and
Yes, important is only the ability to access memories about access to the memories. But the language center is what creates all our problems we have with philosophers of mind.
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Replying to @Plinz @Grady_Booch and
Ok, I think that makes sense to me. (& that 1st sentence was deliberate, not a dittograph?) (I'm tempted to ask whether "…philosophers of mind" is replaceable by "…all intellectual endeavour, ever" in 2nd sentence?) but anyway, what I wanted to say was,
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @Plinz and
The adjectives "fictional" and "simulated" suggest you mean to say that phenomenal experience is not real?
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @Grady_Booch and
Yes, I think it is a false memory.
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Replying to @Plinz @Grady_Booch and
Hmm. Is 'false' different here to 'mediated'? I mean, you could equally say the feeling in my fingers must be false because it is mediated by 3 feet of neuron.
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @Grady_Booch and
I mean that conscious experience is an immediate memory of having had experienced something, but the actual experience never happened.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
Something happened, but you're misremembering it?
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I noticed that 1) my ability to report to myself and others about my conscious experiences depends on memories thereof, 2) some of these memories are impossible 3) there is no qualitative difference between possible and impossible memories of experiences
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