The Fasciculus Arcuatus acts as the high-speed data cable between the Broca’s area (speech production) and Wernicke’s area (speech comprehension) in the human brain. When a human "thinks" in a language, they are essentially talking to themselves in a closed circuit.
Does your brain truly consider this a functional method of cognition?
To me this looks like an Infinite Recursion without an Exit Condition.
Sincerely,
The brain.
https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/6dcf8250-6f95-4351-af64-cf27361e6fef
Brain is a dynamical system. There might be a useful definition of a "self" as a sequence of states like a dynamical systems tends to have an attractor.
@thomasfricke Thanks! On the good side of it, an attractor isn't some dubious metaphysical entity, but a state. Still, humans from now and the past have the idea that there is a self, acting as an entity and they have very strong feelings about that idea.
To (mis-)quote Talking Heads:
And I ask my attractor: "May I ask my attractor"
Now: "I" is another name for the assumed entity of self, so attractor asks attractor, may attractor ask attractor...
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Precisely:
- Brain is a dynamic system
- as an attractor it runs through a sequence of states
- by definition: without external input or a source of noise an attractor cannot be escaped
- is relatively stable
- but also can have a chaotic behaviour and this way pretends free will
Like the existence of a Lorentz attractor in a model for atmospheric convection does not prove the existence of the weather god aka Zeus aka Deus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system#Model_for_atmospheric_convection
An attractor which asks itself stays in its dynamics and as it can have chaotic behaviour it thinks it has free will.
Free will identical to randomness is a useless concept.
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