Zoomposium
In this short excerpt from our full #interview, Professor Dennett explains why he believes that our human consciousness goes beyond the often-used “#computer #metaphor” of #computationalism.
He sees consciousness as merely a kind of “user interface” of a “#sequential, #virtual #machine” that is “inefficiently” implemented on the #evolutionary, “#parallel #hardware” of the brain.
In his opinion, we have no direct access to the “hidden secrets in our brain”. The brain could never understand its own #complexity, what actually happens there.
More about this very interesting interview at: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
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Spot on, Dan! Thing is that the same phenomenon gets us all into a heck of a lot of trouble.