@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialAn iconic question in the effort to understand #consciousness and everything connected to it was first raised by Thomas Nagel in 1974. He asked, “What is it like to be a bat?” Even explaining/defining what it’s like to be us is a challenge. #AI geeks are wont to speculate on whether an AI is, or can be, …
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#Consciousness
Here’s some more muddled #maunderings of a doddering fool, maundered up while reading Michael Pollan’s A World Appears.
We can’t see our selves.
“I cannot cognize as an object itself that which I must presuppose in order to cognizance an object at all.” -Kant… (1/3)…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialAnother area in the study of #consciousness that has been almost entirely ignored by #science is the #unconscious. Partly because it’s difficult to study, but also due to a political bias against the u…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialIn the 2nd half of A World Appears Michael Pollan acknowledges that the #science of #consciousness does what science does, abstracting away everything that can’t be measured; looking from the outside in. But the map is not the territory. He begins to look at and talk to phemomenologists and our actu…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social“#Consciousness is a labyrinth from which there is no exit.” —Michael Pollan, A World Awakens, A journey into consciousness.
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An exploration of the curren…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social“A World Appears”, by Michael Pollan, is a tour de force recounting of the current state of our millennia-long attempts to define and explain #consciousness. Since Plato’s cave (and likely before that) thru #Descartes’ misguided duality, to today’s attempts at
