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What if your dominant personality ate all it's siblings and that's why you only hear one voice? Anyway, there are multiple centers in your brain that process d
by csours 4y ago
What if your dominant personality ate all it's siblings and that's why you only hear one voice?
Anyway, there are multiple centers in your brain that process different sensations and conditions - you perceive hunger, thirst, anger, temperature etc.
Think about a "computer" like a desktop or laptop. How many computers are in the computer? There are many chips that run programs, but are not considered "the CPU".
What if your hunger perceiver was conscious, but your .... main consciousness didn't let it talk.
It could be an interesting science fiction story at least.
- colechristensen 4y agoI think those are separate phenomena. There are plenty of essentially input filters in your brain which are very far from consciousness. For example point and edge detection in vision can be exactly mapped to individual neurons and there wouldn’t be any consciousness involved in that process. The brain seems to be organized into layers. The bottom layers are simple things which turn raw input into a higher more useful abstraction like transforming visual signals into “this is a line”. Abstractions get piled together in the lower levels which are generally well understood and the very top levels being consciousness which isn’t understood at all. It wouldn’t be at all surprising if consciousness had many components with many locations.
- bathMarm0t 4y agoDisco Elysium delves into this a little bit. It's a text-based RPG game that's surprisingly engaging.