I think your trivial idea of what it might mean isn’t accurate enough to be useful in a case like this.
As a tangential point, this seems needlessly aggressive and presumptive. I don’t think you can know whether or not I understand cognitive neuroscience based on one paragraph I have written.
There nothing meant to be aggressive in sentence. I might have removed the word “you” but trivial is a pretty accurate word.
The word consider might be straightforward when you speak about someone’s subjective experience about what he’s doing but it’s not straightforward if you speak about the behavior of billions of neurons.
When solving a go life and death problem I might have only a conscious experience of ‘considering’ 2 moves per second but that doesn’t mean that my brain isn’t effectively analysing many more positions and only brings the interesting one’s up to the level of conscious awareness. If you look at the amount of positions a computer has to go through to solve a go life and death problem that’s the best explanation of how humans can effectively solve life and death problems that effectively take millions or billions of moves.
I don’t think you can know whether or not I understand cognitive neuroscience based on one paragraph I have written.
Your post indicates that you can simply transfer a notion of “consider” that we use in daily life to describing the behavior of large amounts of neurons where we are not conscious of what most of the neurons in our head are doing.
Trivial is simply the accurate word for describing a daily life notion of a word.
As a tangential point, this seems needlessly aggressive and presumptive. I don’t think you can know whether or not I understand cognitive neuroscience based on one paragraph I have written.
There nothing meant to be aggressive in sentence. I might have removed the word “you” but trivial is a pretty accurate word.
The word consider might be straightforward when you speak about someone’s subjective experience about what he’s doing but it’s not straightforward if you speak about the behavior of billions of neurons.
When solving a go life and death problem I might have only a conscious experience of ‘considering’ 2 moves per second but that doesn’t mean that my brain isn’t effectively analysing many more positions and only brings the interesting one’s up to the level of conscious awareness. If you look at the amount of positions a computer has to go through to solve a go life and death problem that’s the best explanation of how humans can effectively solve life and death problems that effectively take millions or billions of moves.
Your post indicates that you can simply transfer a notion of “consider” that we use in daily life to describing the behavior of large amounts of neurons where we are not conscious of what most of the neurons in our head are doing.
Trivial is simply the accurate word for describing a daily life notion of a word.