Minds, Machines & Persons 2008

 

Feb 26

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Consciousness I

Vision and Motor Coordination

 

 

Is this the "complex causal structure" that Searle keeps talking about?

    Makes intentionality possible

    Gives meaning to our representations

    Not merely programs or formal structures

 

Situatated, embodied, contextual, goal-directed -NESS

    Dreyfus & Dreyfus

 

 

Adrian Cussins : Motorcycle Rider

    unconscious visuo-motor control

 knowing how is more important than knowing that

nonconceptual content

 

Appealing because its the physical causal stuff that underwrites meaning, intentionality, etc.

 

BUT WHAT ABOUT CONCEPTUAL CONTENT???

ISN'T THAT WHAT MAKES US SPECIAL?

 

 

 

Andy Clark article

    2 pathways of vision:

       conscious

       unconscious

 

Can we get both?

Does this actually explain the content?

 

 

 

 

Optical Illusions

 

Duck-Rabbit

 

Tichener Circles

 

 

 

Distinguish

 

EBC

Experience-Based Control

 

EBS

Experience-Based Selection

 

 

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