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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: When is a simulation of a Y a Y? (Was Bag the Turing
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In article <D2D0sM.55o@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
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>The fact that we are not aware of everything outside the fovea being a blur
>does *not* show that we have a "detailed internal representation".  Dennett
>shows (in _Consciousness Explained_) that the notion that the brain fills in 
>some detailed picture of what the eyes see, even neatly airbrushing over the 
>blind spot, is a fantasy, a relic of the Cartesian Theater.

Does Dennett show (a) that anyone interesting actually holds the view
that the brain fills in or (b) that this view _is_ a relic of the
Cartesian Theatre?

-- jd
