| Topic: |
Science > Philosophy |
| User: |
"Craig Franck" |
| Date: |
04 Dec 2005 06:52:51 PM |
| Object: |
Re: Whence Qualia? |
"Sir Frederick" wrote
What brain structures when functioning effect
those mental experiences called qualia?
I consider qualia to be sensor (inside and outside the body
context) driven hallucinations. But what sort of neural
structure casts the experienced hallucination attributes?
No magic or spiritualism or hand waving allowed. Especially
no "you knows" allowed. Deceit is allowed in the explanation.
I think the brain structures that correspond to consciousness are
going to develop something like germs did in the 19th and 20th
centuries. Saying germs cause disease is correct, but they have all
been replaced by specific ones. The term "germ" is not incorrect,
just not accurate by today's standard.
So qualia are groups of neurons in various regions of the brain that
fire in some kind of coherent and organized way. It's part of the nature
of an information space not to know or be able to represent the low-
level substrate within that space. There is no reason why poking a
particular bit pattern into a memory location would cause a dot on the
screen other than that's how it's wired to work. And you can't
represent the video portion of a computer with just numbers.
--
Craig Franck
craig.franck@verizon.net
Cortland, NY
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