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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or, he is saying there is only an outside, the "inside" is an illusion. Only "nature", no "subject"...
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In a way that's right but since I can perceive the illusion very directly, why care? Different realities, only one mediatable
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Yes, Bakker has this concept of "medial neglect", which i think means we are constantly buying into self-deception...