Re:Thinking Differently about Thinking: The Mind-Expanding I...
by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:41AM
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Indeed. As Clark always points out, the brain is three pounds of meat trapped in a black box made out of bone, given a few wires to the outside. A logically necessary part of its job is figuring out how to extend its reach outside the skull and entangle itself usefully with the inward-facing and outward-facing faculties of the body, and thence, via those outward-facing faculties (ie: motor systems in your arms or whatnot), with other stuff in the external world (not so different, since it's all outside the black box of bone, is it?) that can be organismically valuable, like a bicycle.
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Re:Thinking Differently about Thinking: The Mind-Expanding I...
by Maybestring on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:03PM
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I notice that when I hit a bump on my bicycle I don't feel a force in my hands and conciously deduce that this must have been caused by the bicycle's tire hitting something. It seems more like I just feel it in my wheel.
Re:Thinking Differently about Thinking: The Mind-Expanding I...
by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:03PM
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I go "ouch" when my wife runs over a pothole while driving. It's a very neat trick, even after I've read things like Surfing Uncertainty and have an idea how it's done.