On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 8:48:54 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote:
> It would seem to need a definition of a "first person experience moment". > Personally I don't think my experiences are very big in information terms. > Notice how easily we are fooled by illusions, which tells me that a lot of > our "experience" content is fabricated. > Experience is fabricated in its actual execution. Thus, even being fooled by illusions or artificiality assumes, that some meaning is verifiably conveyed; with the "true moment" of experience in German philosophical usage referring to the fact of the experience rather than its duration. > But I don't think by experience comes in "moments". They have extent in > experienced time and even overlap. And again there is fabrication. If you > look a someone talking on TV, you see their lips and their sounds as > synchronized. And even as you move further away from the TV you continue > to perceive them as synchronized...up to a point at which you suddenly > start to see the sound as delayed. Your brain was imposing synchronization > earlier. > A fun thing about our brains: run some enjoyable music randomly along with any unrelated film/moving imagery. The brain will spot correspondences and lucky coincidences more than one would think. That's fabrication in action. PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c0928b88-c904-4b51-8acf-1202ff9d33f5n%40googlegroups.com.
