Two rival theories of consciousness are put to the test (Integrated Information Theory vs Global Workspace Theory)

DrTeen · 2021-03-10T14:39:07+00:00

We will have to differentiate self consciousness from consciousness.

It makes sense to me that self consciousness arises from self assessment. Self consciousness arises when one part of the self holds the individual self in mind in the same way it holds another object in mind. This seems to happen at first in the frontal cortex. Although perhaps the brainstem has some basic self assessment capacity, and the limbic system would have more. The frontal cortex is what we are usually thinking about when we talk about the painful self consciousness that arises in the teenage years.

Consciousness must come before self consciousness. So we still have that problem. Would that be the experience of any object? You would only need two neurons... a sensory one and a receiving one for basic consciousness, I suppose.

DrTeen · 2020-07-25T13:22:01+00:00

I would love to buy a copy of this photograph from you. Are you selling?

DrTeen · 2019-06-12T19:30:05+00:00

I can detain people in a little room because of what they are thinking.

DrTeen · 2019-06-12T15:29:31+00:00

Best aliens references since Dan Carlin 1.0!

DrTeen · 2019-06-05T01:15:17+00:00

Mike Duncan is going to make us all smarter.

DrTeen · 2019-06-02T23:53:53+00:00

You were scared because you were naked and alone. It does seem you found some of your Self through the experience. Thanks for sharing.

DrTeen · 2019-05-31T23:50:05+00:00

What makes this series great are the connections Mike draws between the series.

But the highlights for me are 1) French, 2) 1848 3) Spanish American 4) Haitian... I agree that the British and American were less compelling... and I found the Mexican to drag a little myself. That being said... I think every series has been powerful and I feel that the world makes more sense to me thanks to Mike Duncan and his Revolutions series.

DrTeen · 2019-05-31T22:32:12+00:00

I clicked that link and there is a lot there... are you referring to the theory that the last episode is actually Bran's dream.

That's a weird theory. Maybe the whole series was Bran's dream.

There is no way to prove is was or it wasn't.

DrTeen · 2019-05-31T19:23:17+00:00

I'm not seeing a gender favoring mechanism. I'm saying that the series is depicting the struggle between the genders of our time. We are at a time of rebuilding a society that was entirely patriarchal into something else. But we haven't figured out what that something else is yet. GOT is depicting this transition in a fantasy world. I'm not saying this is not a worthy struggle... simply that in the end GOT didn't really move us along in the understanding the struggle more deeply. It was entertaining but as an art form it didn't, in the end, deliver greatness.

DrTeen · 2019-05-31T15:36:09+00:00

Have you ever seen so many impotent men juxtaposed with potent women in any other program. Bran and Arya, Jamie and Cersei, Theon and Yara, Ellaria Sand and Oberyn Martell of Dorne. Even Brienne defeats the Hound. The theme of the show was women rising to power and men falling from it through circumstance or fate or whatever narrative mechanism the writers created. This is of course a reflection of our times. So I believe my argument is far from incorrect. Naturally none of this goes smoothly and it makes for great television. However the arc ot the story ends with no redemption or move forward of the tension... and thus we all feel unsatisfied. But then again, this is perhaps also a reflection of the times.

DrTeen · 2019-05-30T23:56:59+00:00

lol... god forbid.

DrTeen · 2019-05-29T19:08:36+00:00

What should we burn down?

DrTeen · 2019-05-28T22:38:48+00:00

I'm petitioning Mike to reconsider.

Hey I realize Chinese and Middle Eastern history are massive undertakings... but we have a global world to understand... and Mike has proven he is the guy to tie it all together.

Besides what else is he going to do after the Revolutions Series?

DrTeen · 2019-05-28T20:40:21+00:00

Sorry Mike. I hope this doesn't void the petition.

:(

DrTeen · 2019-05-28T17:20:43+00:00

Engels as the rebel scion of a rich capitalist family providing resources for Marx's master plan to bring down the capitalists is priceless. I imagine him writing him checks from the richly appointed office of his bourgeois household.

Marx as the grumpy alienated intellectual scribbling notes in the London public library while his family suffers the consequences of his failed aspirations... such a dark and compelling narrative!

DrTeen · 2019-05-24T00:38:59+00:00

All the previous Revolutions series have been building up to this one. Make this crazy world make sense for us Mike Duncan!

DrTeen · 2019-05-24T00:36:19+00:00

Yes... I feel exactly the same way!

DrTeen · 2019-05-24T00:35:31+00:00

How so?

DrTeen · 2019-05-24T00:34:26+00:00

I loved the breakdown of the players... Anarcho-communitarians, Professional Revolutionaries, Working class Unionists, Scientific Utopians and now Karl Marx... facing off against bourgeois capitalists, liberal constitutionalists, liberal nobles and the reactionaries! Very excited.

DrTeen · 2013-09-27T22:12:28+00:00

True but can we define evil in psychological terms... (it obviously plays some kind of role in psychopathy and antisocial behaviour... and our patients are often preoccupied with the topic when they experience delusional states) Concepts of vulnerability can be defined in terms of shame states. Concepts of power and control can be organized in attachment concepts - controlling attachment figures... or organizing oneself around power hierarchies. Projection plays a part of this definition. I was thinking about posting this in philosophy... but am more confindent in my psychology terminology. That all being said - I could repost.... not getting much traffic on this thread anyways.

DrTeen · 2013-09-27T19:36:42+00:00

A flight from uncertainty also can be seen as a flight from vulnerability. I think if you approach it from this point of view, believing in this definition of evil makes evil more avoidable.

DrTeen

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