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Right, which is exactly why our brains do not directly perceive the "truth" of physical reality. It's models all the way down.
by orasis 11y ago
Right, which is exactly why our brains do not directly perceive the "truth" of physical reality. It's models all the way down.
- escherplex 11y agoBingo. In common philosophical usage 'consciousness' is conflated with what is evinced in consciousness, or process contents (cogito ergo sum). Back in 1988, Bernard Baars in 'A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness' separated self-iterative 'awareness' from process and posited 'awareness' as a 'global workspace' interfacing with parallel subliminal neural subprocessors which collectively manufacture an interactive model of 'reality'. By extension this would reduce all human intellectual modeling of ascertained 'reality' to projections of native intellectual predispositions hard-wired into the neural architecture. But what's basic? Here you're still faced with the same problem which still confronts experimental physics: to study a phenomena you have to employ instrumentation synthesized from the same building blocks of which the phenomena itself is constituted.