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If you need further evidence that the mind does not know the mind, consider the following. Sometimes i wanna fart, sometimes i wanna shit, and i almost always know which is which. But if i pay attention, the sensation is exactly the same. There’s nothing different about the two stimuli, but even then i still know the difference. My mind is not transparent to myself.

The (misguided) comparisons between brain and computer usually begin by stating that the brain is massively parallel, working into multiple threads of thought at the same time.

But it just isn’t.

The brain is not a massively parallel processor. It does not process more than one symbol-chain at the same time. The brain deals with only one thing at a time, and it can’t even vary this one thing: the brain is always dealing with the person’s immediate circumstance. Read More »