Jochen
I am taking the liberty of moving our conversation into consciousness (See
Jochen's note below). Perhaps the list can do a weekend seminar on it.
thanks for the reference. I have down loaded it, and now I must read it.
I confess I have done that snotty thing of looking in the refere
Nick:
Without intending to "set you off" can you explain a bit about your
displeasure at
'cognitive scientists'? Are they too loose in their work; an academic
mash-up with no
real direction; something else; or all of the above ?
Just interested to hear your story...
Thanks,
Steph T (lurker
So, this Baars fellow who you're discussing, this is the Bernard J Baars
whose home page at http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/baars/ links to copies of
all the books and papers under discussion?
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Thompson
wrote:
> Nick:
> Without intending to "set yo
Yes. You can find the text of his 1988 book
"A cognitive theory of consciousness" there.
I borrowed it this week from the university
library (we have got a new one here in Berlin,
see here http://bit.ly/2ELIaK ).
The theory seems to be rather weak,
I think the best thing in his "theory" is the t
Jochen,
I have not read Baars, but... One of the problems with the cognitive theatre
metaphor (and most other dualistic metaphors) is that it makes the modeler's
life harder NOT easier.
Let us assume that, at the most fundamental level, my consciousness is about my
keeping in touch with the world
