A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:26 pm
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... urce=atlfb
I didn't actually read the whole thing because they started talking about all this eye shit, but this sentence I thought was interesting:
I didn't actually read the whole thing because they started talking about all this eye shit, but this sentence I thought was interesting:
To me that means much of the brain is used to decide which stimulus is going to be processed next. How would enlightened be understood if consciousness were framed in that way? Truth is kind of a non-stimulus, so does it put consciousness at rest or something?The theory suggests that consciousness arises as a solution to one of the most fundamental problems facing any nervous system: Too much information constantly flows in to be fully processed.