Vassar: “The neuropsychology of illusory decision procedures however is disturbing to a different disposition than the existence of a future.”
Yes. HA’s point about neuroscience and the illusion of “I” is largely orthogonal to EY’s discussion concerning choice and determinism. However, the neuroscience that HA references is common knowledge in EY’s peer group and is relevant to the topic under discussion...so why doesn’t EY respond to HA’s point?
(Consider an experiment involving the “hollow face” illusion. The mind’s eye sees an illusionary face surface. However when asked to touch the mask nose subjects move their finger directly to the sunken surface, the subjects don’t hesitate at the illusionary surface. The brain has multiple internal visual representations. Our internal “I” has no direct assess to the visual representation used to direct the finger motion. (One visual pathway goes from the occipital lobes at the rear of the brain upward through the dorsal regions to the frontal lobes. Another visual pathway goes from the occipital lobes downward through the ventral regions and guides the finger movement. The “mind’s eye” only has direct access to the information passing dorsally.)
Conscious awareness is only a dim reflection of the brain’s computational operation. “I” is a poor model of the human mind.
Vassar: “The neuropsychology of illusory decision procedures however is disturbing to a different disposition than the existence of a future.”
Yes. HA’s point about neuroscience and the illusion of “I” is largely orthogonal to EY’s discussion concerning choice and determinism. However, the neuroscience that HA references is common knowledge in EY’s peer group and is relevant to the topic under discussion...so why doesn’t EY respond to HA’s point?
(Consider an experiment involving the “hollow face” illusion. The mind’s eye sees an illusionary face surface. However when asked to touch the mask nose subjects move their finger directly to the sunken surface, the subjects don’t hesitate at the illusionary surface. The brain has multiple internal visual representations. Our internal “I” has no direct assess to the visual representation used to direct the finger motion. (One visual pathway goes from the occipital lobes at the rear of the brain upward through the dorsal regions to the frontal lobes. Another visual pathway goes from the occipital lobes downward through the ventral regions and guides the finger movement. The “mind’s eye” only has direct access to the information passing dorsally.)
Conscious awareness is only a dim reflection of the brain’s computational operation. “I” is a poor model of the human mind.