What is brain doing ( Consciousness )
Today many theories exist to describe human consciousness. Some are:
a) Mind/Brain dualism
b) Cartesian theatre
c) Hard problem of consciousness
d) Multiple drafts theory
e) The society of mind
( In these theories I do not find any difference between Daniel Dennett's "Multiple drafts theory" and Marvin Minsky's "The society of mind" )
In June 2007 I finished reading "Consciousness explained" by "Daniel Dennett" and came to know that it could be the last book which would change my life forever.
We might take two or three decades to have more strong evidences for the "Multiple drafts theory".
Following are the facts I consider as strong points for this theory:-
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1) None of the cells in the brain(Neurons) bother about the brain or the body containing the brain. They just do three things.
a) Energy absorption and Survival.
b) Reproduction(Splitting into daughter cells)
c) Firing/Not firing depending upon inputs.
2) Hardware-wise our brain is just a neural network.
3) Hard-wired part of the brain takes care of the body just after the birth. Later the brain is trained(software) to analyze world more accurately.
4) Brains contain stupid demons who become boss of the body for sometime.
5) Create a virtual captain of the crew, without elevating any one of them to long-term dictatorial power.
6) We generally speak and then recognize what we have spoken.
7) The speaker gets no preview of what he is going to speak. He and his audience learn what the speaker's utterance is at the same time.
8) "You are what you speak", or rather "You are what speaks you"
9) There is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in
10) There is no single place in the brain through which all the causal trains pass through in order to deposit content in consciousness.
11) There was pressure to develop a more endogenous way of solving the meta-problem of what to think about next, pressure to create something on the inside with more of the imagined organizational power of a captain.
12) You don't have any personal familiarity with any direct access to processing happening in a thousand channels at once eventhough what is what is happening in your brain.
13) Only a theory that explained conscious events in terms of unconcious event could explain consciousness at all.
Implications of this theory:-
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1) There is NO SOUL in the brain
2) There is NO SINGLE BOSS in the brain
3) Creates illusion that there is one owner/boss/meaner in the brain.
a) Mind/Brain dualism
b) Cartesian theatre
c) Hard problem of consciousness
d) Multiple drafts theory
e) The society of mind
( In these theories I do not find any difference between Daniel Dennett's "Multiple drafts theory" and Marvin Minsky's "The society of mind" )
In June 2007 I finished reading "Consciousness explained" by "Daniel Dennett" and came to know that it could be the last book which would change my life forever.
We might take two or three decades to have more strong evidences for the "Multiple drafts theory".
Following are the facts I consider as strong points for this theory:-
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1) None of the cells in the brain(Neurons) bother about the brain or the body containing the brain. They just do three things.
a) Energy absorption and Survival.
b) Reproduction(Splitting into daughter cells)
c) Firing/Not firing depending upon inputs.
2) Hardware-wise our brain is just a neural network.
3) Hard-wired part of the brain takes care of the body just after the birth. Later the brain is trained(software) to analyze world more accurately.
4) Brains contain stupid demons who become boss of the body for sometime.
5) Create a virtual captain of the crew, without elevating any one of them to long-term dictatorial power.
6) We generally speak and then recognize what we have spoken.
7) The speaker gets no preview of what he is going to speak. He and his audience learn what the speaker's utterance is at the same time.
8) "You are what you speak", or rather "You are what speaks you"
9) There is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in
10) There is no single place in the brain through which all the causal trains pass through in order to deposit content in consciousness.
11) There was pressure to develop a more endogenous way of solving the meta-problem of what to think about next, pressure to create something on the inside with more of the imagined organizational power of a captain.
12) You don't have any personal familiarity with any direct access to processing happening in a thousand channels at once eventhough what is what is happening in your brain.
13) Only a theory that explained conscious events in terms of unconcious event could explain consciousness at all.
Implications of this theory:-
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1) There is NO SOUL in the brain
2) There is NO SINGLE BOSS in the brain
3) Creates illusion that there is one owner/boss/meaner in the brain.
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