Path: utzoo!yunexus!torsqnt!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpwala!cfisun!ima!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: On Epiphenomenalism Summary: The Map and the Territory Keywords: Against Dualism [re: Searle's Chinese Room Argument] Message-ID: <45986@linus.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 89 01:04:30 GMT Article-I.D.: linus.45986 References: Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry Kort) Organization: Iconoclastics, Idolwilde Field Lines: 19 Stevan, what would be the name of my model, which is neither MTE nor MPE: I believe that subjectivity exists, and reflects my brain's attempt to assemble a picture of the world, based on bits and pieces of sensory evidence that come trickling through my ears and eyes. I liken subjectivity to the map, which resembles the territory, but which is at best a crude replica. If my senses perceive the phenomena, my brain synthesizes the nuomena-- the theory or model which best explains the phenomena. It seems to me that my brain retains some sort of internal representation which codes for the structure of the external world. While we may be profoundly ignorant of the brain's knowledge representation system, I suspect that science will uncover nature's secret just as we learned how DNA codes for our genetic heritage. --Barry Kort