>> The brain is a computer that evolved to simulate the outside world. Among its internal models is a simulation of itself — a crude approximation of its own neurological processes.
Oooh. That's a little problematic. Because you have to wonder how far that sort of simulation has to go to be of any use. If they mind has an image of itself, then wont' the image have an image of itself, and so on ad infinitum? Is that physically possible? If it isn't and so the mind doesn't have that infinitely recursive image of itself, won't then its perception of itself be inaccurate? And if it's inaccurate, how useful is it after all? Specifically, how well can the mind use its image of itself to influence itself if it doesn't know itself very well?
I mean, we're in angel-dancing on pin-heads territory here. Maybe not state facts about how the mind works with such absolutely conviction when all we have is speculation? Just a thought, like.
Oooh. That's a little problematic. Because you have to wonder how far that sort of simulation has to go to be of any use. If they mind has an image of itself, then wont' the image have an image of itself, and so on ad infinitum? Is that physically possible? If it isn't and so the mind doesn't have that infinitely recursive image of itself, won't then its perception of itself be inaccurate? And if it's inaccurate, how useful is it after all? Specifically, how well can the mind use its image of itself to influence itself if it doesn't know itself very well?
I mean, we're in angel-dancing on pin-heads territory here. Maybe not state facts about how the mind works with such absolutely conviction when all we have is speculation? Just a thought, like.