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is a bag of tricks, an illusion, a virtual machine running on the parallel material of the neural brain, whose activities are, within this virtual mainframe, now a temporary set of highly structured regularities imposed on the underlying hardware by a program: A structured recipe.

Dennett's observation that a way of resolving over-constraining materialist ties in the study of consciousness, it is possible to consider mental states as being the result of a virtual machine running on the parallel material of the neural brain. . . . For example, we can both produce and understand the complex strings of symbols of a language... we can perform deductive operations on such strings with some facility and reliability... we can do recursive arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication, division and so forth. When we do such things, according to Dennett, our underlying parallel neural architecture is realizing a 'virtual' computing machine, whose activities are now of the classical, discrete-state, rule-governed, serial kind. (Churchland p.264). . . . This is not so. The only feature of the von Neumann architecture that Dennett imputes to the 'von Neumannesque' virtual machine he is discussing is its seriality, and even this feature is heavily qualified in the Multiple Drafts Model. And Dennett explicitly denies that this virtual machine is a 'classical, discrete-state, rule-governed' machine. As Dennett puts it, 'a virtual machine is a temporary set of highly structured regularities imposed on the underlying hardware by a program: a structured recipe. . . ' but he goes on to insist that 'In a von Neumann machine, you just 'load' the program off a disk into the main memory and the computer thereby gets an instant set of new habits... with brains, it takes training, . . . . This is, of course, a major disanalogy.' (p218-9) This training, Dennett says (in terms one might expect Churchland to applaud), 'is accomplished, we can surmise, by thousands or millions or billions of connection-strength settings between neurons, which all together in concert give the underlying hardware a new set of macrohabits, a new set of conditional regularities of behavior.' (p.218). These are not 'rule-governed' or 'discrete-state': '

is a biological phenomenon (like digestion or photosynthesis). Consist of all those states of feeling or sentience or awareness and it does on from when you wake up to when you go to sleep.

is a bridge between the cybernetic networks of individual, society, and ecology.

According to Bateson, consciousness is the bridge between the cybernetic networks of individual, society and ecology and that the mismatch between the systems due to improper understanding will be result in the degradation of the entire supreme cybernetic system or Mind. Bateson saw consciousness as developed through Occidental epistemology was at direct odds with Mind.[29]' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory Bateson

is a dialectical process, positing a basic category that engenders a contradiction, which is 'negated,' and falls apart, creating a need for a more complex category that smooths over the contradiction.

Hegel begins by demonstrating that the categories of thought through which the mind grasps objects are not as stable or certain as his predecessor Kant seems to assume. This instability even applies to that apparently fundamental, universal category, 'being.' To be able to say that something 'is,' that it exist, implies another category: nothingness, or not being. Being always implies nothingness, and vice versa, such that one cannot call to mind one category without invoking the other. Being and nothingness are understood as both opposed and identical, a unity of being and nothing. Consciousness experiences this unity of opposites as contradiction, which it seeks to resolve by invoking a third category called 'becoming,' which captures both nothing and being at once. This dialectical process is how thought moves, according to Hegel's model. Consciousness posits a basic category that engenders a contradiction, is 'negated,' and falls apart, creating a need for a more complex category that smooths over the contradiction. This new composite category in turn reveals its own contradiction and points to another category, and so on. (sparknotes 'hegel').

is a fundamental building block of nature (like space-time or electromagnetism).

is a generic term for cognitive awareness with many species, some of which contrast starkly with one another.

bewusstsein: a generic term for cognitive awareness, of which self-consciousness is one species... and sometimes as a species of consciousness in the generic sense, where it contrasts with self-consciousness.

is a magician who controls the demon of will.

a magician who controls the demon of will.

is a person's knowledge of his actions and the motives for them.

For Kierkegaard conscience [Samvittighed] means, as the word itself implies, a person's knowledge of his actions and the motives for them.

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