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What do you mean by 'perception'?

• SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
  That there's any subjective experience, that there are things I perceive or experience. The question is how do I explain having a subjective experience at all, and do toasters have one?
  • abiox 10y ago
    > that there are things I perceive or experience you have vision and other senses, and physical phenomena that interact with them cause physiological changes. > how do I explain having a subjective experience at all isn't experience necessarily subjective? i'm not sure what non-subjective experience would even mean.
  • visarga 10y ago
    Toasters are not self-replicating systems like living things, so they don't share the same problems. An organism has to fend for itself and reproduce in order to exist. Perception appeared as a mechanism that allows organisms to adapt to changing external conditions. With experience, they learned complex behaviors by reinforcement learning. Every moment, it perceives the world, judges the value potential of possible actions (instinctively), then selects the action and executes it. This loop requires the agent to have an evolving internal state. This is 'subjective experience'. It's a mechanism by which organisms behave in a more adaptive way.