A brain shaped like a camcorder
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A brain shaped like a camcorder
as to the questions; does colour, brightness and contrast exist, and if so where?
We could imagine the comparative where the brain is akin to a very sophisticated camcorder, and then that if we built such a device which would replicate what our brains do, where would we put the inner monitor screen which is showing us the actual subjection vision that our brains are making. Then equally what ‘eye’ is seeing that image.
With tech it is simple, there would be a camera for the eye and a monitor for the image it is looking at after its processors have composed the subjective view. Yet with the brain there is light going into the eye and being turned into electrical signals, which are then processed in the vision cortex which then somehow ‘sees’ the reviewed subjective appearance of the world.
Ok, so we don’t know how all of that works and no it doesn’t make any sense. Yet we can jump ahead of the confusion and state that; lets imagine that there is ~ somehow, an inner screen and camera in the brain – so to speak, perhaps that photons being given off by the brains cells are somehow the actual light we are seeing converted back from the afore said electrical signals coming from the back of the eye. This would mean there is a physical image in the brain which we are seeing and maybe future tech would show us how all of that works. So there would be colour and light if we looked into our brains?
Lets make this simple; if it were sound we were talking about instead of light and colour, then you wouldn’t need futuristic tech. A simple already existent very sensitive sound recording device, would be able to hear the sounds in our brains. So when I am thinking of a song e.g. ‘and she sang shangalang and the music began’ and telling my brain to for God’s sake shut the hell up, as I really really don’t want to remember a song by the bay city rollers from when I was a child. Then you would be able to hear that song!
It seams to me that there must be something else which literally is the inner eye and the inner version of all the senses. BUT, that thing whatever it is, is not physical in terms of all we know about physics, because if it were then the sounds and sights in the mind would be apparent.
So as our primary experience is of ‘the mind’ and it is that which is receiving the subjective view such to build the vision of the world we actually experience, then at the very least, the mind is a non-physical entity which can receive physical information.
Can it change physical info, is further question. It certainly changes it within itself so to say, it does produce the image we see and it does get that wrong e.g. in optical illusions, and produce a skewed vision of the world. In fact when under the influence of hallucinogens or dreaming, the mind can produce a world entirely different to the physical world.
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