Cheerskep, sorry but I will push it! Would you be kind enough to clarify the use of some terms in your messages?
- "there is a millisecond before the first association arises in our mind. The line between those two may be considered the "boundary" between "seeing" and (to a degree) "understanding"."" Millisecond ? Says who ? Pls give your references. So a milisecond is a space? Does it exist in your brain ? "We receive sense data, and the only way we "make sense of it" is by summoning up associations with that "input"." Since when do "we" receive input? What does that mean ? "It's true that babies have "instinctive" reactions to external stimulations, reactions they are apparently born with." True ??? Babies are not born with reactions! Innate cognitive pre-dispositions, yes. "If the baby has no accumulated association with the sound, he'll draw as much of a blank as I probably would if I heard a word in Mongolian." So, you rather work with asumptions, right ? "My basic point is that without a bank of association, and this lump of links in our heads that first "receives" and throws it up on our inner screen, and then scurries about pulling up associations, the sense data would be all but worthless to us." So we have an inner screen ! That's a good one, cognitive neuroscience is rejoicing; we now can have a movie, would you like to write the script? Without malice I am wandering if you are really "understanding" what you are writing ? ;)) Luc Delannoy www.lucdelannoy.com www.neuroartes.org
