The central nervous system contains emulators (already suspected by some researchers). Sensory feedback after completion of a goal-driven task is compared against output from an emulator that has been asked to complete the same task, in parallel The emulator runs faster, partly because the circuitry will simply be shorter.
This is suspected in musculoskeletal control, and I believe it may happen outside the musculoskeletal domain too.
Consciousness may only lag behind the emulator, not the "real world" sensory feedback.
This may offer a counter, or adjunct, to the proposal that consciousness is simply the brain experiencing itself.
The lag may be back propagation. It certainly seems to be some sort of computational overhead.
How do you emulate liking someone? or deciding on a number? picking color? This is the type of stuff conciousness lags behind. It doesnt drive the decision process, it is merely informed after the fact and tries to justify it to avoid any potential cognitive dissonance.
-of course I like her because Im into big butts, and 3 is totally my lucky number!
The central nervous system contains emulators (already suspected by some researchers). Sensory feedback after completion of a goal-driven task is compared against output from an emulator that has been asked to complete the same task, in parallel The emulator runs faster, partly because the circuitry will simply be shorter.
This is suspected in musculoskeletal control, and I believe it may happen outside the musculoskeletal domain too.
Consciousness may only lag behind the emulator, not the "real world" sensory feedback.
This may offer a counter, or adjunct, to the proposal that consciousness is simply the brain experiencing itself.
The lag may be back propagation. It certainly seems to be some sort of computational overhead.