"The most widely accepted psychologist's theory of consciousness identifies it as a mode of 'global broadcast' solely from sensory modalities to 'executive' -- deciding, and 'affective' -- feeling systems that act on this sensory input."
— Rosenberg, Alex (August 8, 1946)
Date
July 18, 2016
Metaphor
"The most widely accepted psychologist's theory of consciousness identifies it as a mode of 'global broadcast' solely from sensory modalities to 'executive' -- deciding, and 'affective' -- feeling systems that act on this sensory input."
Metaphor in Context
That we read our own minds the same way we read other minds is evident in what cognitive science tells us about consciousness and working memory -- the dual imagistic and silent-speech process that we employ to calculate, decide, choose among options "immediately before the mind." The most widely accepted psychologist's theory of consciousness identifies it as a mode of "global broadcast" solely from sensory modalities to "executive" -- deciding, and "affective" -- feeling systems that act on this sensory input. Self-consciousness has nothing else to work with but the same sensory data we use to figure out what other people are doing and are going to do.
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Alex Rosenberg, "Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind," The New York Times (July 18, 2016). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
07/18/2016
