Scott Badger wrote:
> (A1) if, as I believe he suggests, a part of my brain is constructing a
I don't think B follows from A. The description in A fits my current
> best-fit storyline to account for the actions of other
> systems, and
> (A2) if this story is a mixture of interpretation and confabulation, and
> (A3) if I perceive that *I* am the story being told by the story-teller,
> then
>
> (B) Isn't the notion of self an illusion? (and isn't this an
> increasingly
> popular theory among consciousness researchers?)
>
Its a pet peeve of mine that when I say that the human behavior is based on the
firing of neurons, some people jump to, "you think we are just a bundle of
neurons". The "just" takes out most of the interesting stuff about how the brain
works, and rather misrepresents my view. I like the "Society of Mind" model
which I think Scott is referring to. But I don't think it implies the brain is
"just" a collection of neural sub-systems. The "story-teller" may be an
important part of the perception of self, but without the other parts, it would
have no stories to tell.
Bernard