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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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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(and had them confirmed by neuroscience, which was fun. Would have to search, but it was about modeling memory formation)
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I would be interested to see that if you can find it. It is a question of mathematical intuition, and reality construction. ...
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Oh yeah here: nature.com/neuro/journal/
Through introspection, I had mapped out the "shape" of a memory and its retrieval
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arriving at a model where related memories would be stored "next" to each other, and a recall would strengthen it
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