I think you’re right—if there was a homunculus of some kind somewhere, then the problem apparently goes away (well, it goes inside the homunculus where it remains as unsolved as ever.) What is clear is that the complexity of our thoughts can’t exist in a small enough partial brain, it needs the whole thing to be there—just as with the PC. The complexity is perhaps being hidden in the fiction of continuing to provide the inputs?
The problem can be solved by considering that only one moment needs to be statistically accounted for at a time and then the next moment becomes statistically just as likely as the one before, associated only by anticipation and memory, existing completely independently however by its own random nature. The frequencies of conscious experience range only 5-50 per second, much much less of a data burden than say a planck level simulated reconstruction of an entire physical universe exactly required to create those moments for that lifetime. http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time
I think you’re right—if there was a homunculus of some kind somewhere, then the problem apparently goes away (well, it goes inside the homunculus where it remains as unsolved as ever.) What is clear is that the complexity of our thoughts can’t exist in a small enough partial brain, it needs the whole thing to be there—just as with the PC. The complexity is perhaps being hidden in the fiction of continuing to provide the inputs?
The problem can be solved by considering that only one moment needs to be statistically accounted for at a time and then the next moment becomes statistically just as likely as the one before, associated only by anticipation and memory, existing completely independently however by its own random nature. The frequencies of conscious experience range only 5-50 per second, much much less of a data burden than say a planck level simulated reconstruction of an entire physical universe exactly required to create those moments for that lifetime. http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time