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> But why does that feel like anything? Consciousness is an attention mechanism. That inward regard, evaluating how the self reacts to the world, is attention
by delichon 1y ago
> But why does that feel like anything?
Consciousness is an attention mechanism. That inward regard, evaluating how the self reacts to the world, is attention being payed to the body's feelings. The outward regard then maps those feelings on to local space. Consciousness is watching your feelings as a kind of HUD on the world. It correlates feels to things.
- EMIRELADERO 1y agoSure, but that still leaves the mystery of how qualia is generated in a mechanistic manner.
- lanfeust6 1y agoYes. Still perplexing to be thrown into the world. How is it that my individual experience is in this body but not another one? Etc
- savoyard 1y agoJust wait till you hear Geoffrey Hinton’s “little pink elephants” routine; it will all make sense then (it won’t). The mystery is almost rivaled by that other mystery of why some of us fail to be mystified.