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Conscious perception is not only analog, but conscious of all that is being seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted continuously and simultaneously. Consciousness is not a cinema.mickthinks wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:54 pm I'm not convinced of either premise. Is perception really discrete or is that just how we experience it? Is experience really continuous or is that just how we perceive it?
Long to read. But it seems interesting.Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 2:00 pm
As it is stated ...
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/win ... dding.html
We have two things perception which starts with the activation of the sensory system by the packet of lights. Then our nervous system sends the information in the form packet. Brain function is also discrete. The other thing that we have is the experience which is continuous.mickthinks wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:54 pm I'm not convinced of either premise. Is perception really discrete or is that just how we experience it? Is experience really continuous or is that just how we perceive it?
As someone has said, some signals our sense organs receive might be continuous, but, the sense organs themselves seem to have a “refresh rate”. Because they send a signal once their detection levels goes above a certain threshold, there will likely also be some “cooling off” period before they can fire again, but, likely neighbouring nerve cells are firing at different times and rates to others, which might mean instead of getting all signals coming in at a synchronous “clock tick”, they might all be arriving at different times, meaning there might not be a time when there is no signal coming in at all. To this point, you could view all those signals as being “woven” together such that they are “bound” and therefore appear continuous. The same could be said for the receiving end, of perception.bahman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:48 amWe have two things perception which starts with the activation of the sensory system by the packet of lights. Then our nervous system sends the information in the form packet. Brain function is also discrete. The other thing that we have is the experience which is continuous.mickthinks wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:54 pm I'm not convinced of either premise. Is perception really discrete or is that just how we experience it? Is experience really continuous or is that just how we perceive it?
Folks in the olden days used to have longer attention spans, spans so long they were continuous. Just imagine the attention span back in the really olden days that was required to consistently, accurately, and repeatedly (i.e. scientifically) transmit identical and detailed information before any form of writing existed.
We have two things perception which starts with the activation of the sensory system by the packet of lights. Then our nervous system sends the information in the form packet. Brain function is also discrete. The other thing that we have is the experience which is continuous.
What in the world are you talking about?bahman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:16 pmWe have two things perception which starts with the activation of the sensory system by the packet of lights. Then our nervous system sends the information in the form packet. Brain function is also discrete.
I am talking about perception here.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:30 pmWhat in the world are you talking about?
lol, yes. But this:bahman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:46 amI am talking about perception here.