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Well, that doesn't capture the whole story. If I punch your leg, you experience these "discrete" events simultaneously: the feeling of being punched, the sound
by soulofmischief 2y ago
Well, that doesn't capture the whole story. If I punch your leg, you experience these "discrete" events simultaneously: the feeling of being punched, the sound of being punched, the visual phenomenon of me punching you.
Your brain uses a combination of signal delay and anticipation/prediction in order to create a seamless experience that holds until the temporal discrepancy between events is too large. So there is some cyclic, recursive element to consciousness which is not adequately explained by a linear stream of discrete events.
- theptip 2y agoIndeed, there is some more detail around attention (foreground) vs. awareness (background), but the claim really is that in your foreground attention there can only be one object at a time. In your example the three sense modalities would occur sequentially in consciousness, and the rapidity would make you think they were simultaneous. But I think what you’re also getting at is that “object of attention” can be a surprisal signal from different layers, which I think must be true, and I do agree is something that needs to be accounted for. I didn’t go deep enough to speak to what Dharma theory would say about this.