Prologue Inner Presence Revonsuo
<p>Feb 03, 2014 09:53 PM</p>
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God, this is good! a total knockout!</p>
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this chapter hits the nail on the head and is beautifully written.
Why is humanity important? Because it is conscious!
Key Q for me: can we create a consc machine at parity with humans?</p>
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Reread this over and over again... it deserves it! He is right on the money!</p>
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Biological Realism is his orientation. That REJECTS panpsychism.
That also DENIES Quantum consciousness.</p>
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It is a biological phenomenon: why did it arise? how does it work?
why is it important?</p>
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What is the nature of the EXPLANANDUM (consciousness).</p>
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his approach is MULTILEVEL Explanation.</p>
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it should be treated as simply one particular level of bio organization:
<b>the phenomenal level in the brain</b>....</p>
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in multilevel framework explanation, must show how consc breaks down into several small tasks.</p>
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Why was consc SELECTED FOR during EVOLUTION.
how does it contribute to adaptive behavior.</p>
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page xx: the WORLD SIMULATION METAPHOR...
the DREAMING BRAIN: pure consc!</p>
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the basic feature is the SENSE of PRESENCE:</p>
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the contents of consc form the WORLD NOW PRESETN FOR ME (a VR in the brain).</p>
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xxi; the most fundmaental ingredient of the phenomenal level is a
<b>UNIFYING SPATIAL COORDINATE SYSTEM (virtual space)</b>...
in which the rest of phenomenal contents must be embeddeed to be directly
presnt in subjective experience.</p>
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<b>Virtual space is the invisible unifying framework that</b>
<b> underlies the global unity of consc</b>...</p>
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it explains why there is just ONE world for me in which all phenomenal experience resides.</p>
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