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Article 2103 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
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Subject: Re: Searle (was.....)
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Date: 13 Dec 91 17:02:24 GMT
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In article <316@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>Even our conscious awareness of sensory inputs is
>at a *very* high level of abstraction.  We are aware only of objects and
>relationships, not of individual sense signals [....]

No-- we see a complex image, something like a photograph (or at least I do).
If there's an apple in front of you, you are aware of more than just this
fact-- you can examine the details and texture of the apple.  You can also
examine objects your brain has not been able to categorize.

(Now, what accounts for this subjective image is, to me, a real bafflement.
Discussions of neural networks may help explain how we *analyze* this image,
but what produces it?)


