Mysteries of Visual Experience
arXiv Preprint Archive April 28, 2016 preprint
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Neuroscience q-bio.nc Brain science Neural science Artificial intelligence cs.ai Machine learning Visual perception vision Sight Visual processing Visual cognition Consciousness awareness Conscious experience Sent |
| Key points | Argues that the mind-body problem and other deep scientific mysteries are beyond the current purview of science. |
Abstract
Science is a crowning glory of the human spirit and its applications remain our best hope for social progress. But there are limitations to current science and perhaps to any science. The general mind-body problem is known to be intractable and currently mysterious. This is one of many deep problems that are universally agreed to be beyond the current purview of Science, including quantum phenomena, etc. But all of these famous unsolved problems are either remote from everyday experience (entanglement, dark matter) or are hard to even define sharply (phenomenology, consciousness, etc.). An updated summary of this work has been published as: Feldman, J. (2022). Computation, perception, and mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E48. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001886 A more readable, open access, version is: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cs78450