I don’t know what this post is claiming. I have the feeling it’s supposed to favor something like Dennett’s stance on consciousness. But the example used, of music, doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. We know how to reduce sound to physics. (It’s surprising that it can be reduced to a single waveform, but not that it can be reduced to physics.) We don’t know how to reduce our perception of sound to physics.
You’re right that the focus of the post is not to reduce our perception of sound to physics (it is rather to demystify thinking as just another perception), but it does briefly address this: the claim is that your perception of sound is an event in the brain. See my reply to Yvain … it seems we’re trading those today :)
I don’t know what this post is claiming. I have the feeling it’s supposed to favor something like Dennett’s stance on consciousness. But the example used, of music, doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. We know how to reduce sound to physics. (It’s surprising that it can be reduced to a single waveform, but not that it can be reduced to physics.) We don’t know how to reduce our perception of sound to physics.
You’re right that the focus of the post is not to reduce our perception of sound to physics (it is rather to demystify thinking as just another perception), but it does briefly address this: the claim is that your perception of sound is an event in the brain. See my reply to Yvain … it seems we’re trading those today :)