I was listening to a lecture about the brain and consciousness the other day, and the professor brought up the "binding problem". She explained how multiple pathways in the brain form consciousness or something that it is happening to "me", and also seems as a unitary experience. For example, there are nuclei in your brain that process visiual information, some other area does does auditory, and somatosensory and so on, but there is no single place(and neuroscientists have looked) in the brain that makes ALL this information come together yet we dont experience the world as all these bits of information, but in a unitary way. What makes it all come together? i wanted to ask people who know about computers, in what way the processes all get put together to form whats on your screen? is this the processor? and i also want to ask what would the computer be like if there wasnt any integration going on?
2007-12-07
02:09:56
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