perception, evolution, and the mind-body problem
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Perception, Evolution, and the Mind-Body Problem. Don Hoffman. Mind-Body Problem. What is the relationship between biology and conscious experience?. Science Top Open Questions. What is the universe made of? What is the biological basis of consciousness?. Edelman Wider Than The Sky. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Perception, Evolution, and the Mind-Body Problem
Don Hoffman
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Mind-Body Problem
What is the relationship between biology and conscious
experience?
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ScienceTop Open Questions
• What is the universe made of?
• What is the biological basis of consciousness?
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EdelmanWider Than The Sky
There is now a vast amount of empirical evidence to support the idea that consciousness emerges from the
organization and operation of the brain ... The question then becomes: What features of the body and brain are
necessary and sufficient for consciousness to appear?
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KochThe Quest For Consciousness
The fundamental question at the heart of the mind-body problem is, what is the
relation between the conscious mind and the electro-chemical interactions in the
body that give rise to it? How do [conscious experiences] emerge from
networks of neurons?
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• V1
• Extrastriate
• V8
• V5
• Rivalry
NCC
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• Type Physicalism
• Token Physicalism
• Reductive Functionalism
• Nonreductive Functionalism
• Representationalism
• Eliminative Materialism
Philosophical Theories
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• 40 Hz Oscillations
• Claustrum
• Information Integration
• Tubulins
• Neural Action Templates
Scientific Theories
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• Taste of garlic, smell of rose
• 40 Hz? Claustrum?
• Information Integration?
• Tubulins?
• Neural Action Templates?
Hints − Not Theories“... then a miracle
occurs...”
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McGinnMind
We know that brains are the de facto causal basis of consciousness, but we
have, it seems, no understanding whatever of how this can be so.
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Thomas HuxleyMind
How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes
about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the
appearance of Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.
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PinkerHow the Mind Works
Our thoroughgoing perplexity about the enigmas of consciousness, self, will and knowledge may come from a mismatch
between the very nature of these problems and the computational
apparatus that natural selection has fitted us with.
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• Perception as faithful depiction
• Physicalist ontology
Question Key Assumptions
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Hypothesis of Faithful Depiction
A goal of perception is to match or approximate true properties of an objective
physical environment.
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Theories of Perception
• Direct
• Indirect
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GibsonEcological Approach
The environment consists of the earth and the sky, with objects on the earth and in the sky, of mountains and clouds, fires and sunsets, pebbles and stars ... the
environment is all these various things − places, surfaces, layouts, motions, events,
animals, people, and artifacts that structure the light at points of
observation.
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Purves’ Cube
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Purves’ Cube
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Purves’ Cube
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Purves’ Cube
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Purves’ Cube
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Anderson’s Moons
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Anderson’s Moons
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Anderson’s Moons
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Anderson’s Moons
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Anderson’s Moons
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Yuille and BuelthoffPerception as Bayesian
Inference
We define vision as perceptual inference, the estimation of scene properties from an
image or sequence of images ... The brain...must make assumptions about the
real world.
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LeharBBS
The perceptual modeling approach reveals the primary function of perception as that of generating a fully spatial virtual-reality replica of the external world in an internal
representation.
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Purves and LottoWhy We See What We Do
... what observers actually experience in response to any visual stimulus is its accumulated statistical meaning (i.e., what the stimulus has turned out to
signify in the past)...
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Noe and ReganVision and Mind
Perceivers are right to take themselves to have access to environmental detail ... the environmental detail is present, lodged, as it is, right there before individuals and ... they therefore have access to that detail by the mere movement of their eyes or
bodies.
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PalmerVision Science
Evolutionarily speaking, visual perception is useful only if it is reasonably accurate ...
Indeed, vision is useful precisely because it is so accurate. By and large, what you see is what
you get. When this is true, we have what is called veridical perception ... perception that is consistent with the actual state of affairs in the
environment. This is almost always the case with vision.
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PinkerHow the Mind Works
We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural
selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not
to commune with correctness.
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Multimodal User InterfaceMUI
The conscious perceptual experiences of an agent are a multimodal user interface
between that agent and an objective world.
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Human MUI
• Species-specific
• Friendly formatting
• Concealed causality
• Clued conduct
• Ostensible objectivity
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• Virtual tennis
• Friendly formatting
• Concealed causality
• Clued conduct
• Ostensible objectivity
VR Example
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• Veridical perceptions?
• Public physical objects?
• I make the moon?
• Step in front of train?
• Tables made of atoms?
• Icons should do what I want?
Objections
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Subjective Necker Cube
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Conscious Realism
The objective world consists of conscious agents.
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Conscious Realism
• Objective
• Conscious agent
• Why?
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Conscious Observer
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Mind-Body Problem
• Physicalist: Describe precisely how consciousness arises from, or is identical to, certain types of physical systems.
• Conscious Realist: Describe precisely how conscious agents construct physical objects and their properties.
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Conscious Realist Progress
• Objects
• Color
• Motion
• Shape
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Questions
• Panpsychism?
• Kantian idealism?
• Causality?
• Epiphysicalism
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Perception, Evolution, and the Mind-Body Problem
Thanks to Bruce Bennett and Chetan Prakash