spends a chapter apologizing for breaking consciousness
vision has a recognition engine that queries perception, hallucinations
consciousness, like love, is culturally constructed
descartian dualism: mind vs. brain
epistemological, ontological,
Descartes: animals and human bodies are automatons
phenomenology of mind: items that exist in the mind: thoughts, images,
aromas, dreams, emotions, feelings

there are no flat "pictures" in the brain. Puctures are no more tgan 10K
years old. A picture induces similar experience in the brain
peripheral vision is pretty bad, eye focuses on object of interest. Dogs
can sense the direction of the smell
words in a familiar language are separated not by pause in speech but by
mind's grammar processing

adaptive significance of affective states
behaviorism: only phenomena observable from outside is considered
heterophenomenology
afforent/efforent signal lines
cartesian materialism: the brain has a center
multiple editions model
10 meters distance for audio and light reception equivalence
cartesian theater,
projection theory
brain does not represent time (or space) linearly (spacially)
color phy, cutaneous rabbit
ducking reflex, vertical symmetry detector
bakdwin effect, post-natal fixing
consciousness - auto stimulation: language inverted
consciousness: sequencial process grafted onto parallel biological
primitives
soeech generation: feedback loop between conceptualizer and speech
implementor(s) possibly working concurrently
Forster: how do I know what I mean until I see what I say
schientists: neirologists, cognitive schichologists, philosophers, AI

mind is not an "engineering" solution with neatly delineated components but
the result of evolution and serendipitous discoveries. Hence hard to analyze

first and second order thoughts
blind-sight
consciousness only seems continuous because edges temporayy or spacial are
not shown
anosognosia
color vision co-evolved with color-coding: some species want to eat ripe
berries. Other color matches are coincidental
vertisto motiva