RE: Where the I is

From: brent.allsop@attbi.com
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 14:47:08 MST

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    Lee said:

    >>>Suppose I wonder whether there is such a
    representation of my monitor---on which
    I'm reading email---in my brain. It turns
    out that there is. In our visual cortex
    (I forget whether it's V4 or what), there
    indeed is such a literal mapping<<<

    Yes, you’ve got it! There is an actual scale model in our head!

    And the monitor that you are consciously aware of, that you only think is the
    real thing in front of your real head is really simply this "mapping" in your
    brain. Just as your conscious knowledge of your head in front of the monitor
    is also a similar "mapping" in your brain. Everything you are consciously
    aware of is simply information in your brain that represents the reality beyond
    our senses – not reality itself. Some of these representations are more
    accurate than others, and others, such as our knowledge of a soul or minds "I"
    inside the head looking out the eyes, have no referent in reality at all.
    (i.e. it can be considered an "illusion")

    The important thing is these conscious representations are more real than
    reality itself. We know such exists more than we know reality itself exists.
    They are made of qualia or the phenomenal properties of something in our brain –
     something traditional cause and effect science alone is unable to observe. In
    order to discover and observe what/how these phenomenal qualities are requires
    effing. (see my paper at http://home.attbi.com/~brent.allsop)

    >>>Monkeys eyes were held fixed while they
    steadily looked at a certain geometric
    figure (a grid or a triangle, I forget).
    Then they were instantly killed, and it
    was found that this same grid was
    present, and spatially too, in their
    visual cortex (at the back of their heads).
    So it seems that we do have a picture in
    our heads for visual information.<<<

    This is new to me and frankly hard to believe. The representations survive
    past death?? Do you have some references or something?

    Brent Allsop

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