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Michael Graziano wrote:Note the distinction between the reality (Bill’s attentional process) and the perceptual representation of the reality (Abel’s perception that Bill is aware). The reality is quite complex. It includes the physics of light entering the eye, the body orientation and gaze direction of Bill, and a large set of unseen neuronal processes in Bill’s brain. The perceptual representation of that reality is much simpler, containing an amorphous, somewhat ethereal property of awareness that can be spatially localized at least vaguely to Bill and that, in violation of the physics of optics, emanates from Bill toward the object of his awareness. (For a discussion of the widespread human perception that vision involves something coming out of the eyes, see Cottrell & Winer, 1994; Gross, 1999.) The perceptual model is simple, easy, implausible from the point of view of physics, but useful for keeping track of Bill’s state and therefore for helping to predict Bill’s behaviour. As in all perception, the perception of awareness is useful rather than accurate.
chairman bill wrote:No doubt if you swing both ways, you'd use bifocals
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