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He could use his very smart brain more

His earlier stuff was good. He appears to have totally gone off the deep end though.

Right. That was just wild.

Until information comes along to change our view of history, the existing accounts we have of it are as good as it gets. Beyond Top Secret, remains a very good historical resource to this day. Even the hard copy MJ-12 documents included therein...

Yes, Randall, I read it many years ago and I have to admit I thought it was a great book but then there was a time I would everything by the late great Stanton Friedman and assume it was all factually acurate.

If they disclose what ever it is ? It will never be all that those are seeking and above top secret. On the ongoing debate about MJ 12 its the first one and the M J -12. still used. If any U.S President was to grant the release it will be...

His earlier stuff was good. He appears to have totally gone off the deep end though.

Right. That was just wild.

I seem to recall some kind of conversation - maybe in the forums, I don't recall - about how it might be a systemic risk to investigators in this field to go sideways. I remember thinking that many of the folks that start off strong - like Good...

Until information comes along to change our view of history, the existing accounts we have of it are as good as it gets. Beyond Top Secret, remains a very good historical resource to this day. Even the hard copy MJ-12 documents included therein...

I was planning to read the papers by Clark and Humphrey again on consciousness/representation with an eye to the questions above - will post that when I finish.

It's not that "why" and "how" type questions are necessarily bad questions. Whether a question is good or bad is a subjective evaluation that is beside the point. The principle that illuminates the weakness of "how" and"why" type questions is...

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It was an analogy to illuminate the disadvantage of "why" and "how" type questions, the principle of which can be applied to the pursuit of knowledge about pretty much anything. It's not limited by the nature of the subject at hand. What is your...

I am so having deja vu' here ... seems like the last two posts have been made somewhere verbatim, like we go to this exact point last time we talked about representations ... Ground Hog Day...

It is interesting to note which body states we are aware of and which remain beyond us. Same with things in the environment. Could certainly be informative. I’m sure there’s a paper or research on this. You are 100% correct that the organism...

Thank God. I can't wait until it all floats away.

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They don't all work together under an umbrella of consciousness. There are lots of ways that cells and tissues communicate and work together, probably 99.9999999999% goes on without consciousness - and we don't even know what role consciousness...

Harken! Pharoah! ;-) "awareness" is knowledge or perception, not all of that happens in consciousness, it's also possible not all organisms have subjectivity, yet they are aware ... *sigh* terminology The rest of it - proclamation, you keep...

I don't see how we can fail to ask questions about the origin and nature of consciousness as it has evolved in life on this planet. The very fact of its evolution and development demonstrates that consciousness is a natural phenomenon and the...

Before I forget: the notion of "a science of representation" is a truly absurd notion.

So we all have the same self model?

Thank God. I can't wait until it all floats away.

They don't all work together under an umbrella of consciousness. There are lots of ways that cells and tissues communicate and work together, probably 99.9999999999% goes on without consciousness - and we don't even know what role consciousness...

“We” is the “self model.” The you that is thinking and wondering a is model/interface/consciousness experience instantiated by billions of cells working together that we call an organism. How else do you suppose that billions of cells might...

I'd like to hear that from @Pharoah. It's seems very different to me.

Subjectively is how organisms have awareness of their environments. There’s no way around it. In order to be “aware” of its environment, an organism needs to a have a unified, subjective perspective/model/conscious experience on its...

Can we listen in and see what the 'self-world model' has to say for itself?

Sorry. “Missing” isn’t the right term. I mean they will be different. Not different in a “missing ingredient” kind of way. Recall our discussion re whatever it is that makes some physiological processes have a “what it’s like” won’t be a...