Comment 10%? Ptolemy go home the sun doth not circle Earth (Score 0) 42
What we call thinking is actually us listening in on the actions of our brain, modeling it, and controlling it. Learning theory says that in order to pick up new information, you must not attack your brain with data, but let it settle and "cook" a little. The language center of our brain by nature not by design or miracle also has the capacity to function as a internal laboratory.
Just as dreams contain sounds, images, smells, we can recreate those things inside our heads voluntarily. (Sure, we can't always get certain tunes Out of our heads.) Or we could set our brain to work on a problem without necessarily watching every neuron fire. We call that kind of obsession paranoia, or stage fright.
So I don't think consciousness is some complicated that exists because of some esoteric property of the universe. I pretty much think it's as simple as plumbing.
Just as dreams contain sounds, images, smells, we can recreate those things inside our heads voluntarily. (Sure, we can't always get certain tunes Out of our heads.) Or we could set our brain to work on a problem without necessarily watching every neuron fire. We call that kind of obsession paranoia, or stage fright.
So I don't think consciousness is some complicated that exists because of some esoteric property of the universe. I pretty much think it's as simple as plumbing.
