The ability to look into a mirror and recognize oneself is a cognitive skill we all take for granted, but very few…
Alex Trust
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I don’t see how the mind making immediate if unconscious processing attempts is an argument against anything. That’s the whole point. Unconscious processing is constant, but you only get conscious frames every 400ms or so (it’s possible that the brain will rush a new frame if something triggers it to do so, like a…
Yeah, no one is saying consciousness isn’t real. They’re saying you aren’t as conscious as you think you are. That’s a big difference. The way you perceive your thought processes isn’t the same as how they actually work. And we can look at how the brain handles information, and how perception is different from…
Octopodes is a perfectly valid plural of octopus in British English, which helgaperez might be using so ... (shrug)
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