That is a fine observation from Caledonian. The noise is not being added to existing sense data, it’s being added before the signal hits the receptors—but to stay in tune with the proposed scenario, we can easily imagine that the organism has already internalised the signals at that point.
Re: Daniel Dennet: that’s not really right—random wiggling is better than no wiggling at all, but it is still an extremely bad way to generate variation.
That is a fine observation from Caledonian. The noise is not being added to existing sense data, it’s being added before the signal hits the receptors—but to stay in tune with the proposed scenario, we can easily imagine that the organism has already internalised the signals at that point.
Re: Daniel Dennet: that’s not really right—random wiggling is better than no wiggling at all, but it is still an extremely bad way to generate variation.