Imagine a room that is cubical, large enough for one person to easily walk around in. The room is a featureless white on the interior and there is one door into the room. There is a mask on one of the walls, midway up the wall at roughly head level. The mask points outward of the room and there are two eyeslits in the mask to look through. A man walks into the room and walks around. On occasion he goes up to the mask and looks through the mask to see what is happening outside. This is a reprentention of a mind theater, but only one amongst an infinity of potential mind theater. Author: David Elkins
Indeed, DE, if you're going to post a new thread, at least raise something to discuss. This isn't a blog-site for you to post your musings. If that's the way you want it to go then I'm sure the Mods can set up your own personal thread for you, just as they did for Spellbound.
Is this some Frankenstein composite of ghost in the machine, transmigrated spirits taking turns ("there is a door into the room"), and the Homunculus argument (man in the box peering out)? With respect to a man in the room, he needs to be clarified as more than just another box himself that's simply absorbing sensory information and nothing else. To avoid explaining a situation with a repeat of the same type of situation. Immanuel Kant first addressed the internal structure of the enigmatic "box" by supplying it with understanding of the information via an interpretative conceptual structure. When shifting from a generic view of "mind" to a particular empirical / concrete realization of such (like a brain)... Then the inputted stream of information can be superficially conceived as splintered up and branching into parallel occurring processes which get related to general meaning patterns stored by memory organization. Later converging back together or integrated as a representation which finally has semantic significance. The homunculus argument as a fallacy is just having that same "series circuit"-like scheme of the components being connected in an endless sequence [null box in a null box in null box] which never resolves in an analytical branching of multiple relationships regulated by stored data (concepts) which can eventually output an understanding of the information.
