Post by Katheryne Lin on May 30, 2015 5:18:15 GMT
1) Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness.
• According to your video “Consciousness as a Mobius Strip: Wittgenstein and the Unspeakable” you stated that the Mobius strip is an endless surface and any attempt in efforts to change or transform it into something it is not in which doesn’t conscious relate to a thing as such? You also stated that your attempt to explain it simply abandons on how you experience it since it is the context and not content of what is experienced. Also in the book “cerebral mirage: the Deceptive Nature of Awareness” it states that us humans only tend to be mindful of our own surface level of consciousness, we tend to “remain almost entirely lacking knowledge of the unconscious developments that take place moment to moment within our own neuroanatomies, whether it is the circulation of blood and our pumping hearts or the firing of neurons within our cerebral cortex. We are, in essence, strangers to our own genetic programming. “ (Lane 8-9) Meaning that the virtual simulation can happen at anytime at anywhere for various amounts of time.
2) How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
• In your video “ The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic image” you mentioned an amusement park in the 1900s such as Disneyland in which it was famous for their Lincoln attraction to which a woman finds herself confused when she thought the machine operating Lincoln was in fact not human but a machine when she wanted to go up to the machine for an autograph. In which you tied the event to yourself when you yourself went onto the Pirates of Caribbean at Disneyland to find out that the Pirate staring down at you was also in fact not a human being in which several years later you figured out that it was the lighting thus tricking your mind. Another scenario was when you and your friend were in the haunted mansion in which your friend did not realize that the head was merely a hologram. Minds can be easily manipulated, in which conscious is basically the unconscious. Examples such as dreams are a prime example of consciousness as to how it is a virtual stimulator. Also in the book “ Is the Universe an App?” it states, “ Evolutionary benefit higher order consciousness conveys upon those who have it. Any organism that can “virtually stimulate” varying options within itself before outsourcing them in a real, empirical world has a tremendous advantage over creatures who lack such a simulacrum Rolodex.” (Lane 140)
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Posted on Joseph Peterson “How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?” on May 29, 2015.
• According to your video “Consciousness as a Mobius Strip: Wittgenstein and the Unspeakable” you stated that the Mobius strip is an endless surface and any attempt in efforts to change or transform it into something it is not in which doesn’t conscious relate to a thing as such? You also stated that your attempt to explain it simply abandons on how you experience it since it is the context and not content of what is experienced. Also in the book “cerebral mirage: the Deceptive Nature of Awareness” it states that us humans only tend to be mindful of our own surface level of consciousness, we tend to “remain almost entirely lacking knowledge of the unconscious developments that take place moment to moment within our own neuroanatomies, whether it is the circulation of blood and our pumping hearts or the firing of neurons within our cerebral cortex. We are, in essence, strangers to our own genetic programming. “ (Lane 8-9) Meaning that the virtual simulation can happen at anytime at anywhere for various amounts of time.
2) How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
• In your video “ The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic image” you mentioned an amusement park in the 1900s such as Disneyland in which it was famous for their Lincoln attraction to which a woman finds herself confused when she thought the machine operating Lincoln was in fact not human but a machine when she wanted to go up to the machine for an autograph. In which you tied the event to yourself when you yourself went onto the Pirates of Caribbean at Disneyland to find out that the Pirate staring down at you was also in fact not a human being in which several years later you figured out that it was the lighting thus tricking your mind. Another scenario was when you and your friend were in the haunted mansion in which your friend did not realize that the head was merely a hologram. Minds can be easily manipulated, in which conscious is basically the unconscious. Examples such as dreams are a prime example of consciousness as to how it is a virtual stimulator. Also in the book “ Is the Universe an App?” it states, “ Evolutionary benefit higher order consciousness conveys upon those who have it. Any organism that can “virtually stimulate” varying options within itself before outsourcing them in a real, empirical world has a tremendous advantage over creatures who lack such a simulacrum Rolodex.” (Lane 140)
Extra credit:
Posted on Joseph Peterson “How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?” on May 29, 2015.