Lexicon of Arguments

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I 223
Mentalese/Brain/Brain state/language of thought/McGinn: Suppose that the brain contains a language, the brain will use it to set up a theory of its own. ((s) as to be able to ever recognize malfunctions, it must be able to compare the desired and actual states.)
Seeing/McGinn: the brain also makes use of an optical theory to interpret the distal importance of a pattern.
>Seeing.
McGinn: Thesis: so the brain has certainly the necessary reserves, comprehensive representation areas that are not going to be noticed.
>Brain/McGinn.
I 226
Brain/Mentalese/McGinn: the brain is not subject to the same limitations as the conscious reason. E.g. pain: there may be a subsystem for self-monitoring, which prescribes the pain centers to change the fibers when overloaded. Here semantically mediated feedback loops would obviously be highly useful, the more clever, the better. The dimensions of this cleverness do not coincide with the consciousness.
>Consciousness.

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