Post by cinthyamoya on Oct 6, 2016 2:42:43 GMT
1. Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness?
Virtual simulation theory of consciousness is the idea that our reality cannot always be real. It explains how our imaginations can take us to deferent levels of consciousness to the real and unreal stages of awareness. According to the video The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic Image “consciousness is a fantastic virtual simulator and because its inclusivity and insular engineering it has an inherent tendency to believe its own machinations as exterior to itself and not as the byproduct of its own interiority” it also explains how we might think otherwise from reality, how some situation seem so real to us without realizing that is being simulated by our consciousness and that’s when part of our mind stays unaware. In the Brain Burn: Consciousness as a Virtual Simulator video it is also mentioned that consciousness is disassociation, so consciousness arises as dissociation so it can play out via internal machinations what we call imaginations day dreaming without physical harm alternative scenarios to secure its four f’s f..K, food, flees, and flight. Consciousness is literary virtual stimulator and that is why it has been so helpful in allowing humans to survive globally even when our bodies were not adapted to certain environmental niches.
2. How does the brain trick us and for what benefit it is for our genetic survival?
The brain tricks us to believe pretty much everything from the way we think to the way we feel. According to the book is the Universe an APP? The major interest is in understanding how consciousness evolved as a virtual stimulator and why important to human cognition is and advancement al thought there is deferring ways to explain how the brain gives rise to our self awareness. “the astonishing hypnoses is that ‘you,’ your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules” (pg.1,2). The brain is capable of experiencing situations that seem to be unreal and be able to adjust to them. It is mentioning that “our conviction that something is real or certain doesn’t mean that we cannot be mistaken’ pg53). The benefit for our genetic survival it’s that the brain is able to act in different situations. ““ In the providence of the mind, what is believed to be true is rue or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experimentally and experimentally. These limits are further to be transcended.”’ In the providence of the mind, there are no limits”” (page 119). Our genetic survival is to be able to adjust to the situations and be able to have some control of or personal environment as it is mention that “our brains were not design to understand the universe as it is, but rather to eat it.” and anything that can augment our eating habits will be naturally selected, including our ability to deceive others” (pg. 98).