Mark Linsenmayer
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first heard Jun 2026
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And the question is, does that become conscious or not?
Well, does it become globally available for thought or not?
That's
So the second uh there's another quote here, and in a classic paper, the psychologist Paul Rosin, nineteen seventy six, R O Z I N Rosin, Paul Rosin argued that specializations form the building blocks for higher level intelligence.
At the time of their origin, these specializations are tightly wired into the functional system they were designed to serve, and are thus inaccessible to other programs or systems of the brain.
I s suggest that in the course of evolution, these programs become more accessible to other systems and in the extreme may rise to the level of consciousness and be applied over the full realm of behavior or mental function.
When when I was then, you know, looking back at Consciousness Explained, like I found a paragraph that basically said this much, but right, it didn't have those words, fame in the brain, which he's actually now gonna say.
It's not exactly right because fame sounds like, well, fame for who
It still sounds like it's a performative thing.
I guess he's just saying it's accessibility to each other.
So the this this neuron is famous if if its signal is available to all the other neurons.
So it's it's i it's not, you know, before a grand uh audience.
We normally think of fame as something that is uh, you know, not everybody has their 15 minutes of fame, but but is uh
top down phenomenon.
You know, where did you get to be in the movies or on T V or not?
And then there's just a bunch of sort of mute spectators.
That's not clearly what he's talking about.
Uh no section two competition for clout.
The basic idea is that consciousness is more like fame than television.
It is not a special medium of representation in in the brain into which content bearing events must be transduced in order to become conscious.
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