fubarobfusco comments on The raw-experience dogma: Dissolving the “qualia” problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 15 September 2012 05:50:48PM *  2 points [-]

By any of a variety of possible causes, my attention is brought to bear on my current action, and I notice that I am looking in front of me and seeing a purple box.

What sort of a thing am "I" that the expression "my attention" refers to anything? What am I, that I can possess an attention? Do I have it in the way I have hands, or in the way I have the recollection that 17 × 2 = 34? Can I sometimes have two attentions, or zero, or half of one?

Comment author: Peterdjones 18 September 2012 08:47:52PM 1 point [-]

I would love to be able to comment on the degree of meaningfullness, truth, well-informedness, originality and clarity of you comment, but I find myself suddenly confused by what sort of things meaningfullness, truth, well-informdness, originality and clarity actually are. Do you have one or zero of them...?

Comment author: selylindi 20 September 2012 10:05:48PM 0 points [-]

I'm a brain in a body. My attention is a cognitive process for allocating scarce processing resources.