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I find it interesting how brain works when we try to solve a problem. It is like we have to tell the brain "Here is the problem ... now come up with a solution"
by galaxyLogic 4y ago
I find it interesting how brain works when we try to solve a problem. It is like we have to tell the brain "Here is the problem ... now come up with a solution". And then it does somehow come up with proposed solutions. But we are unaware of how it does that. It is the sub-conscious.
How do we come up with thoughts? They just seem to appear out of nowhere. We don't decide what we will think next. Something guides what thoughts come to mind next, but we have no idea of the internal reasoning that must be going on under the surface.
- drigby 4y agoDaniel Dennett has an interesting theory. Consciousness is a “pandemonium architecture” where clusters of neural connections (daemons) “shout” when activated. The more activations, the louder it shouts, and the higher it climbs in the unconscious, until it gains enough energy to irrupt through the threshold of consciousness.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoSomething like that surely. And what about dreams? When I'm about to fall asleep it is as if some kind of story starts to be told by my brain, it invents it. I just hear it and am in a different world. If I don't fall asleep because of some interruption I can remember how the dream-world was starting to take over.