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Thank you for saying that. I was looking for something profound after reading this, and either the article doesn't explain this new theory well, or it is as you say splitting hairs.

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everything is a memory aka a representation. light hit eyeball, causes a neuron to fire...and already its just the memory of light, not light itself. that neuron passes along the info, which just re-encodes the event with other information. So just more memory. It is both profound and obvious.

Not really what the article is saying though. The big implication that I got from it is that none of our actions is actually conscious. We are literally made up of atoms, which react automatically to the world in very complex ways, then a memory of these actions is seen by the conscious mind, and fools it into thinking they were conscious actions

That simply means, by their definition, the subconscious is playing the role of what we think of as the conscious. As someone said earlier - splitting hairs.

Again, not really. Unless you fully accept that consciously or subconsciously, we have absolutely zero free will.

> and already its just the memory of light, not light itself.

And not even a memory of light directly, but rather a representation of the sensory input that is triggered by photons.

In parallel, we (or, more accurately, those who study it) also have intellectual representations of photons, somewhat divorced from the physical experience.

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