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>From: bill@ca3 (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: Grounding: Real vs. Virtual (formerly "on meaning")
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Date: 23 May 92 17:53:05 GMT
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zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
: 
: I'm prepared not only to argue that we never see the world, but further, 
: that we never see retinal images either.  Seeing is a property of a process 
: deeper in the brain than the retina, though the retina and optic nerve do 
: some pre-processing.  The retinal image contains much more information than 
: you actually see, and what you see is built internally from data supplied by 
: various brain processes to the 'seeing process'.  [. . .] 

  But what is "you"?

  You have fallen into the trap that Dennett calls the "Cartesian
Theater"; see "Consciousness Explained" for an explanation.

	-- Bill

(bill@nsma.arizona.edu   -- Bill Skaggs)


