Your Brain Is Not a Computer. It Is a Transducer

Its so interested in examining and fitting the transmission/transduction hypothesis that it doesn't even weigh against the typical hypothesis, e.g. for unexpected lucidity in patients with brain damage: neural plasticity. Then we have working models of neurons and have observed neurological function in organisms and simulated neural networks with abilities which previously seemed to be limited to organic brains... So, unless we accidentally created transducers in these models or there is only a certain part of consciosness or perhaps certain faculties which we derive from a transduction ability, it just flat out seems like a pretty nonsense idea. In saying that... God I love this sort of drivel. So intriguing. If there's any truth to this model it's that we are leveraging some yet-undescovered physics in our brains for certain faculties, but it seems extraordinarily unlikely that wholesale consciousness is being broadcast in to our heads! Have had some drug experiences which warped my perception in such a way that it felt like I was just a node in a network... But that's hallucination, not an alternative to the scientific method.

I have witnessed terminal lucidity. My grandfather was dying of cancer. He was to the point that they kept him him continually dosed with morphine. He had not been cognizant for weeks when he was suddenly awake and aware and pain free for about an hour, in which time he asked to see his family and say goodbye. I ma in awe of the moment in life every time I think upon it.

Finally gets to the point around paragraph #19:

> What if evolution, at some point, produced a special kind of transducer that could shift signals from the physical world as we know it to a very different kind of world?

So yeah, this is mysticism wrapped in talk of RCA cables and sound waves.

> Hard evidence that supports a neural transduction theory is lacking at the moment, but...

This article is pure wishful thinking.

This website is exactly like the “How I experience the web now” post from the other day.

So many words to say so little. In other words, a Harvard PhD in Psychology!