Thank you for your specific arrows to where I was not explaining myself well—most helpful.
The reason that it is so easy to see movies as smoothly continuous is that consciousness is comprised by a train of frames. I believe there is good evidence for this.
I am using a ordinary meaning of ‘model’. As in ‘this is a working model of a steam engine’ or ‘this stimulation models Heath Row airport’. Some researchers call it the ‘global workspace’, others call it the ‘Cartesian theatre’. The mind does maintain a model of the self in its environment. I believe there is also good evidence for this.
By’ edit’ I mean that the frames of consciousness are derived from the model but are not the whole of it, but rather much smaller chunks. Edit seemed a good word, maybe excerpt would have been better.
I have no firm evident for this, but I believe that there is a great deal of unity in many processes of mind. It is consciousness itself that has a false sense of unity and continuity.
Thank you for your specific arrows to where I was not explaining myself well—most helpful.
The reason that it is so easy to see movies as smoothly continuous is that consciousness is comprised by a train of frames. I believe there is good evidence for this.
I am using a ordinary meaning of ‘model’. As in ‘this is a working model of a steam engine’ or ‘this stimulation models Heath Row airport’. Some researchers call it the ‘global workspace’, others call it the ‘Cartesian theatre’. The mind does maintain a model of the self in its environment. I believe there is also good evidence for this.
By’ edit’ I mean that the frames of consciousness are derived from the model but are not the whole of it, but rather much smaller chunks. Edit seemed a good word, maybe excerpt would have been better.
I have no firm evident for this, but I believe that there is a great deal of unity in many processes of mind. It is consciousness itself that has a false sense of unity and continuity.