tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post1985014217041761217..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: A Leash of Hemp: Does our slow, overbearing consciousness mislead us about human nature?Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-32209070056549910842014-07-08T09:24:02.782-04:002014-07-08T09:24:02.782-04:00Thank you for an insightful post. I have a similar...Thank you for an insightful post. I have a similar thing when birdwatching, when bird song are heard 'subconsciously'. "Did I hear a chiffchaff? No, I can't hear anything" (this is a translated thought than in my brain feels like experiencing the word 'chiffchaff' in isolation, with no conscious sensory input (i.e. hearing the song of the chiffchaff). Then, a few minutes later, a clear Chiffchaff singing and a sense of relief, or like you 'prediction'. I am not sure why, but if has happened with this species several times.Africa Gomezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03501193251810926737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-3198966076922319802013-02-08T14:34:10.280-05:002013-02-08T14:34:10.280-05:00insight... explanation... http://mindhacks.com/201...insight... explanation... http://mindhacks.com/2013/01/24/a-retrospective-editing-of-consciousness/<br />Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-58714225105395608342012-10-11T09:24:41.226-04:002012-10-11T09:24:41.226-04:00Thanks!Thanks!Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-69029154446481865442012-10-10T23:50:35.199-04:002012-10-10T23:50:35.199-04:00Peirce and Jastrow (1885) in one of the very first...Peirce and Jastrow (1885) in one of the very first psychology experiments in North America (and also the first to use randomization long before Fisher) did so to make a similar argument: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Peirce/small-diffs.htmJohn R. Vokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03822243132435056442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-90651171217077912732012-10-10T10:46:45.224-04:002012-10-10T10:46:45.224-04:00Yes. I like to induce deja-vu (or at least try to)...Yes. I like to induce deja-vu (or at least try to) by opening a new book to a page somewhere in the middle, reading it, then starting the book from the beginning and ....Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-20551453030704858882012-10-10T10:38:27.114-04:002012-10-10T10:38:27.114-04:00This may be related to the deja-vu phenomenon, I t...This may be related to the deja-vu phenomenon, I think. In my experience, for example, you predict that something will happen, and then see it a moment later. Presumably the conscious part of the brain is lagging behind the perceptions.<br /><br />There are also the split-brain studies, showing that one hemisphere is thinking away normally, but the other hemisphere (where consciousness mainly resides) is happily oblivious to it.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-86614015115679427532012-10-10T10:35:42.836-04:002012-10-10T10:35:42.836-04:00Another delay-based explanation. I have seen this ...Another delay-based explanation. I have seen this man before, taken in his traits including his dog's leash, and instead of remembering, I made up a story that I was seeing a brand new observation and oh-so-cleverly predicting things about it. Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-71276626403978767062012-10-10T09:20:29.657-04:002012-10-10T09:20:29.657-04:00That emoticon in my previous comment was winking a...That emoticon in my previous comment was winking at you to portray sarcasm and meta-punning on the ideas.Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-58814049090485070232012-10-10T09:19:03.091-04:002012-10-10T09:19:03.091-04:00Well, I made my point badly, and perhaps what you ...Well, I made my point badly, and perhaps what you said is really what I had attempted to say. <br /><br />The main pint is that we may experienced that we think something out, but subconscious brain activity may be doing things first -- in ways you described -- and handing us the results (or, perhaps, only some of the results) to our conscious awareness.<br /><br />Anyway, this is one of the last or major frontiers of biology, at least in the sense of being the most fascinating....or at least my conscious mind has been told that I think that.<br /><br /><br />Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-19514715250736094592012-10-10T09:11:07.483-04:002012-10-10T09:11:07.483-04:00Thanks Anne. It helps a great deal to have your hi...Thanks Anne. It helps a great deal to have your high bar to strive to meet.Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-42927463625094074092012-10-10T09:10:14.460-04:002012-10-10T09:10:14.460-04:00But I did, Ken. I did think it out. Didn't you...But I did, Ken. I did think it out. Didn't you read it carefully? ;) hahaha.Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-6108034420553588632012-10-10T09:05:17.457-04:002012-10-10T09:05:17.457-04:00Very interesting, as usual!
Consciousness is part...Very interesting, as usual!<br /><br />Consciousness is part of the story that is so resistant to understanding, because it is the ultimate subjective phenomenon that science must study objectively.<br /><br />The prevailing approach for more than a century has been to study the 'correlates' of consciousness. The most direct evidence suggests that the brain figures things out and makes decisions split seconds before the person is aware of that. So much of what you try to figure out about the guy running ahead of you with his dog may be done before you're aware that you're thinking about it, or something to that effect. I think that means we may not be able to think out what our actual reasons, evidence, and so on, were.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-56294739274571094392012-10-10T08:59:38.399-04:002012-10-10T08:59:38.399-04:00I love this, Holly. The ultimate how do we know w...I love this, Holly. The ultimate how do we know what we know. Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.com