[FRIAM] Eternal questions

[Frank Wimberly]

Nick,

I can't find the message to which this is an appropriate reply.  Did you
know once say to me that I have no private inner life or not?  Maybe I have
a false memory.

Frank
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 12:22 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ach!  My point was I don't think you need organisms, or minds, or any of
> the "hard" stuff, to run into the logical problems entailed in moving
> between levels of organization.  Perhaps I am just too old, too slow,  too
> HOT, too uninformed, to be in this argument, right now. Or ever?    Not
> without some help in language mediation, anyway, from some of my trusties,
> who are absent from the conversation.   So, I bow out.   But I love you all.
>
> N
>
> Nick Thompson
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
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> Choosing a particular emotion misses the point, confuses the noise for the
> signal. The polyphenism, alone, demonstrates that starting with a
> particular emotion and working inversely from that phenotype to the
> generators is guaranteed to be a difficult problem ... you're guaranteeing
> that we stay stuck in this argument forever.
>
> Instead, work on the forward map from generator to phenomenon. The article
> Roger posted goes a long way to helping us understand how to get from
> molecules (or tissue, at least) to either glucose regulation or
> storage/retrieval. And we're not talking about billiard balls. We're
> talking about ion channels, neuron firing, collections of neurons firing,
> anatomical tissue and patterns of firing correlated with such tissue, and
> finally spectral analyses of such firing patterns. That carries us along a
> forward map from molecules to consciousness (or, at least, perception).
>
> And I don't think we're going to get to EricS' question without that
> compositional stack, because we're going to have to talk about which parts
> are Markovian and which parts are not (or are high-order Markovian).
>
> On 8/26/21 9:34 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I guess I think in levels of organization, and my rants are always of
> > the form, Grant Each Level Its Due and Do Not Confuse Them.  So you can
> discuss the amygdala all you want, but you still have not described, or
> identified, fear.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, you ask, how would a person of my persuasion go about explaining
> > the relation between the molecules in my skin  and the excitation of
> those elections that produce on my screen, what I am writing.  Never mind
> the socalled hard problem (the problem of the soul). Let’s figure out a way
> to talk about that.
> >
> >
> >
> > Or for that matter, let’s make it even simpler:  Let’s talk about the
> > relation between the molecules of a cue  ball that result in the motion
> of the eightball into a pocket and the loss of the game.   Let’s even do
> some spherical cowing here and assume that one, and only one molecule of
> the cue ball touches one and only one molecule of the eightball.  Is this a
> good model?   Have I understood the question right?
> >
> >
> >
> > I don’t think Nick should say “I am my fear.”  I think he should say
> > “I am the sum total of all the things that I do and that fear is one of
> the things I do”.   Or, perhaps, to put it in terms of experience-monism,
> “I am all that I experience and when I experience my flight behavior in
> relation to my experience of my circumstances I experience my fear.”
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have to get back to that message from EricS that I bungled my response
> to.
>
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