TheOtherDave comments on Neurological reality of human thought and decision making; implications for rationalism. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 January 2012 03:47:40PM 1 point [-]

Not to mention, we can catch baseballs, run, and select targets from a field of distractors, among many other feats of unconscious data processing and system control. This ought not be surprising... while consciousness might (or might not) be single-threaded software running on parallel hardware, there are of course other functions that the hardware performs.