"...because it is more interesting...."

Oh, indeed, sir. Of course, one has to ask what "interest" is. A kind of attention that is curious about some reality or other, I guess.   But...well, whose attention is it? There is a wide range of phenomenology being ignored by the assertion that attention is just some neuron sub-circuit talking to some other sub-circuit in a self-reinforecing loop. Such an explanation only becomes viable when you eliminate the source of the attention. In doing that, because of a strongly-felt need for agreement or empirical validity, you walk away from the real issue most adroitly.


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