The Structure of Visual Space Group

The goal of the multidisciplinary Structure of Visual Space Group is to focus on the structural nature of visual space and how it is "constructed," its relation with "external" physical space, correlated brain events, and to corollary theories in modern physics and cosmology. Anyone wishing to post material on the blog is invited to contact either William Rosar (wrosar@ucsd.edu) or John Smythies (jsmythies@ucsd.edu) of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Localization of the Mind

Confusing two systems of spatial relationships, one physical, the other perceptual, has long contributed to insoluble paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of mind and perception. In this monograph I start with Eddington’s famous example of the “two writing tables” and explain how we must distinguish between “two heads,” the one we know from perceiving our own and those around us, the other the physical head as studied by neuroscience. Their properties are quite different. The perceptual head is composed of sensations (qualia) whereas the physical head is composed of biological matter only. http://www.academia.edu/4042688/The_Localization_of_the_Mind