Re:Humans who are not concentrating are not general intellig...
by taneq on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:27AM
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> It's less than fake. You can't actually pinpoint it. There is no little you sitting in your head over the dashboard and making decisions. You don't decide when to decide to move your hand. It just comes to you. If we disconnect your hemispheres which one is going to be you?
The way I see it, your perception of there being "a little you" is basically a self-referential part of your brain taking a bunch of status readings from all over your brain and using them to generate the sensation of the little you doing whatever it is that you're doing.
The homunculus is there in your head, but he's just a picture on the screen in your Cartesian theatre.
The way I see it, your perception of there being "a little you" is basically a self-referential part of your brain taking a bunch of status readings from all over your brain and using them to generate the sensation of the little you doing whatever it is that you're doing.
The homunculus is there in your head, but he's just a picture on the screen in your Cartesian theatre.