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Pastimes : Human Brain, The
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To: Shane M who wrote (356)2/7/2014 8:12:15 AM
From: George Statham  Read Replies (2) of 935
 
Now that I've broken through and actually posted here, I thought I'd respond even though it's been a little while. One thing I'd noticed when tired and driving late at night many years ago is that I'd see a dog by the side of the road. I'd get closer and realize it was a bush or some brush. I have some familial hearing loss, and there are lots of things I hear that are funny malapropisms. I'm sure lots of what Yogi Berra said came pretty naturally to him too. I believe all this tends to confirm Daniel Dennett's multiple drafts theory of consciousness. In his theory, you're receiving very raw input, a vibration of an ear hair, a photon hitting the retina, and there are different levels of processing and interpretation that are formed or rejected until one interpretation reaches consciousness. When the input is fuzzy, the interpretation that arises can be wrong. But you're right, it is opening possibilities that are usually rejected and don't reach consciousness. Years ago there was something called gestalt psychology and they spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the brain was doing by looking at input like optical illusions. So is it a vase or a face? Figure and ground keep switching. You're at the edge of competing interpretations.

Anyway, your post struck me as very interesting because I hadn't heard anyone else speak about the same kind of experience.

George
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