Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is. The padawan is right. Go to the center of gravity's pull and find your planet, you will. — Yoda
Blindsight is essentially when a person doesn't perceive anything in front of their eyes due to brain damage, yet better than chance they can "guess" what is there somehow. Surely all of our knowledge isn't gained strickly from perceptions from our senses? Perhaps we can gain knowledge from things we can't even perceive is there?
↪NOS4A2 Can you perceive visually through your entire body? — Daemon
It's an 'illusion of consciousness' produced by unconscious (subpersonal) brain processes. Objectively, 'intentionality' is not what it subjectively seems. In light of the classic Libet experiment (demonstrating 'delayed awareness' of voluntary actions) as well as well-established cognitive biases such as e.g. anchoring bias), the practical example which comes to mind is daily commuting that, with repetition, people report experiencing going to and coming home from work as autopilot, almost trance-like, largely with little and even no conscious memory of actually driving, walking, riding ... from A to B and B to A. Maybe you've experienced it. Like blindsight in particular, intentionality in general is, mostly if not completely, an unconscious, subpersonal, reaction to environmental stimuli (including one's own behavioral effects). 'Consciousness is secondary – much more veto than volo – and confabulatory', perhaps selected for as a beneficial social-coordination adaptation which functions as the 'phenomenal complement' to natural language usage.↪180 Proof I'm a bit puzzled how intentionality fits in here, how it could be an illusion. Can you give a practical example? — Daemon
To say you are in a state that is (phenomenally) conscious is to say—on a certain understanding of these terms—that you have an experience, or a state there is something it’s like for you to be in. Feeling pain or dizziness, appearances of color or shape, and episodic thought are some widely accepted examples. Intentionality, on the other hand, has to do with the directedness, aboutness, or reference of mental states—the fact that, for example, you think of or about something. — Stanford Encyclopedia
Like blindsight in particular, intentionality in general is, mostly if not completely, an unconscious, subpersonal, reaction to environmental stimuli (including one's own behavioral effects). 'Consciousness is secondary – much more veto than volo – and confabulatory' [...] — 180 Proof
The illusion is that intentionality (i.e. "to be conscious about") its seems a conscious process when in fact (mostly and most often) it is not. — 180 Proof
They can't describe in detail what is there. They just know something is there. This is the difference between p-zombies and non-p-zombies. The assumption that p-zombies can behave the same way as humans is wrong. Blind-sight patients are unsure about what it is that they are aware of and won't behave in the same way as a human who perceives consciously.Blindsight is essentially when a person doesn't perceive anything in front of their eyes due to brain damage, yet better than chance they can "guess" what is there somehow. Surely all of our knowledge isn't gained strickly from perceptions from our senses? Perhaps we can gain knowledge from things we can't even perceive is there? — TiredThinker
I'm not sure what to make of this. If intentionality is part of the same system (the whole body) then why can't we say that we always behave with intent? All of our behaviors are goal-directed.Re: blindsight – Perception (like volition or cognition) is primarily (mostly) an 'unconscious yet functional' process; therefore, "intentionality" might only be an ex post facto metacognitive illusion: thus, unknown knowns (i.e. unknowingly knowing). — 180 Proof
Patently false assumption (e.g. reflexes, habits).All of our behaviors are goal-directed. — Harry Hindu
So you're saying that reflexive and habitual behaviors didn't evolve to achieve some goal - like survival?Patently false assumption (e.g. reflexes, habits). — 180 Proof
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