Blind Brain Theory is the red pill to end all red pills, I must try to study it in depth despite having evolved for shallow info acquisition
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I've given it a cursory reading and it seems that "introspection is useless/misleading" is a core assumption. Am I correct?
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"The attempt of the neurosciences to perform an erasure of 1st person experience" huh? Neuroscience is not able do this.
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Consciousness (and every information process) has an inside and outside view - NS is strictly concerned with the outside.
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They can map the brain down to the last atom and not find anything, but 1st person exp would still be there.
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Because "what's it like to *be* an algorithm?" still isn't answered even though we understand the algorithms completely.
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[will keep on reading now; just noting down my thoughts as part of the reading process]
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Yes, sometimes he argues that from the inside we are "blind" to the outside, or have no access to the underlying process ...
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I do think brains are a tricky substrate, but then again I've arrived at testable hypotheses through introspection alone.
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... which I can agree with, but then he seems to want to argue that there is "no inside at all", which begins the difficulty..
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or, he is saying there is only an outside, the "inside" is an illusion. Only "nature", no "subject"...
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[aside: reply to your own tweets and twitter's interface will allow me to read them in sequence while I still get notified]
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