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The Preference Fulfillment Hypothesis
2PuNCheeZ71

relevant article I just read - On the origins of empathy for other species

Among the Mbuti foragers of West Africa, ethnographer Colin Turnbull noted that many magical rituals invoking animal spirits ‘convey to the hunter the senses of the animal so that he will be able to deceive the animal as well as foresee his movements’ (emphasis mine). Such an ability to take on the thoughts of others may have similarly scaffolded an understanding of one’s self

In many of these cases of deception and mimicry, we can find explicit references to having to think like an a

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Sazen
2PuNCheeZ40

"the tradeoff of pushing the complexity into the representation or the traversal of an algorithm"
could you say more?

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2Slider
without knowing aether I tried to look into i t a little bit. On the basis of shallow understanding: Aether variables are not standins for values but can also be standins for formulas. Say you want to draw a red box on the screen. The representation high complexity way of doing is it to have a function return a box and then giving it to a drawer (probably not goning to be valid aether) The algorithm high way of doing it is to not have intermediate representations That ends up drawing the same picture. Point is "simpler" in that it can stand in anywhere that a "semi-literal" like (13,3) can be, but it is "fuzzier" in that it has a lot of lazy evaluation happening when it actually gets used.
On the construction of the self
2PuNCheeZ10

Now, as people have pointed out, it is tricky to use split-brain cases to draw conclusions about people who have not had their hemispheric connections severed. But this case looks very similar to what meditative insights suggest, namely that the brain constructs an ongoing story of there being a single decision-maker


choice blindness experiments are a great example of this. people seem to change their actual preferences after having to come up with a justification for something they didn't even prefer but thought they did

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Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain
2PuNCheeZ10

in that attentional blink experiment why is T2 visible ≈75% of the time at first when lag is 100ms ? I seem to be missing something because it contradicts the finding 

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3Kaj_Sotala
I remember wondering about the same thing. I don't remember it being addressed in the book, but I'm guessing that in that case, T2 comes so fast that the workspace mechanisms don't have the time to "lock on" to T1 very strongly and T2 manages to overwrite it before that.