And there are orders of magnitude more detail going on in my body (and even just in my brain) than I perceive, let alone that I communicate.
There are no sentient details going on that you wouldn’t perceive.
It doesn’t matter if you communicate something, the important part is that you are capable of communicating it, which means that in changes your input/output pattern (if it didn’t, you wouldn’t be capable of communicating it even in principle).
Circular arguments that “something is discussed, therefore that thing exists”
This isn’t the argument in the OP (even though, when reading quickly, I can see how someone could get that impression).
There are no sentient details going on that you wouldn’t perceive.
I think we’re spinning on an undefined term. I’d bet there are LOTS of details that effect my perception in subtle and aggregate ways which I don’t consciously identify. but i have no clue which perceived or unperceived details add up to my conception of sentience, and even less do I understand yours.
I think we’re spinning on an undefined term. I’d bet there are LOTS of details that effect my perception in subtle and aggregate ways which I don’t consciously identify.
You’re equivocating between perceiving a collection of details and consciously identifying every separate detail.
If I show you a grid of 100 pixels, then (barring imperfect eyesight) you will consciously perceive all 100 them. But you will not consciously identify every individual pixel unless your attention is aimed at each pixel in a for loop (that would take longer than consciously perceiving the entire grid at once).
There are lots of details that affect your perception that you don’t consciously identify. But there is no detail that affects your perception that wouldn’t be contained in your consciousness (otherwise it, by definition, couldn’t affect your perception).
There are no sentient details going on that you wouldn’t perceive.
It doesn’t matter if you communicate something, the important part is that you are capable of communicating it, which means that in changes your input/output pattern (if it didn’t, you wouldn’t be capable of communicating it even in principle).
This isn’t the argument in the OP (even though, when reading quickly, I can see how someone could get that impression).
I think we’re spinning on an undefined term. I’d bet there are LOTS of details that effect my perception in subtle and aggregate ways which I don’t consciously identify. but i have no clue which perceived or unperceived details add up to my conception of sentience, and even less do I understand yours.
You’re equivocating between perceiving a collection of details and consciously identifying every separate detail.
If I show you a grid of 100 pixels, then (barring imperfect eyesight) you will consciously perceive all 100 them. But you will not consciously identify every individual pixel unless your attention is aimed at each pixel in a for loop (that would take longer than consciously perceiving the entire grid at once).
There are lots of details that affect your perception that you don’t consciously identify. But there is no detail that affects your perception that wouldn’t be contained in your consciousness (otherwise it, by definition, couldn’t affect your perception).