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🎧Unseen Sound – How Your Brain Processes Inner Music🧠 What actually happens when we hum a melody in our heads—without any external sound? It’s a fascinating idea: there’s no actual sound in our heads, just a representation of sound. It’s as if our mind doesn’t hear music, but rather encodes it—much like data on a CD. Not acoustically, not truly digitally, but in a unique form of internal representation. In our Zoomposium with Daniel C. Dennett, it becomes clear: Consciousness is less a “place” where things happen, and more a process of processing, interpretation, and simulation. Our inner experiences—even something as seemingly direct as music—are constructs that the brain generates in its own “medium.” This raises exciting questions: 👉 What exactly do we experience when we “hear internally”? 👉 How does this representation differ from actual perception? 👉 And could an artificial system ever develop such inner “worlds of sound”? A fascinating insight into the nature of consciousness—somewhere between philosophy, neuroscience, and information theory.

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

Can we design an experiment to determine whether qualia—the supposedly ineffable, subjective qualities of experience—really exist? In this episode of Zoomposium, we speak with one of the most influential philosophers of mind of the last century, Daniel C. Dennett, about one of the most debated concepts in consciousness studies. Dennett provocatively argues that the very notion of qualia may be incoherent. Philosophers disagree deeply about what qualia even are. In experimental demonstrations, participants are exposed to rapidly changing stimuli—yet often fail to notice significant visual alterations. When asked whether their qualia changed during those unnoticed shifts, audiences split: some say yes, others say no. They share the same perceptual situation—yet cannot agree on how to describe it. For Dennett, this suggests that the problem may not require a new experiment—but conceptual clarification. If we cannot coherently define qualia, how could we empirically test for them? The conversation touches on eliminativism, the multiple drafts model of consciousness, naturalism, and whether subjective experience can ultimately be explained in functional and neuroscientific terms. Is consciousness a user-illusion? Is the self a constructed narrative? And what would count as evidence against that view? A challenging and thought-provoking dialogue at the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive science. 📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

🧠✨ Decoding Your Brain – How We Think, See, and Hear! 🔍🎧🌈 How does the brain actually think? When we see, hear, or form an idea, it doesn't happen in images or words – but in patterns of electrical activity in what are known as spike trains. Daniel C. Dennett sums it up: We are so accustomed to the world of photos, words, and symbols that we automatically assume our thinking works the same way. But our mental representations are neither images nor sentences—they are something unique, something dynamic, something radically different. In our new Zoomposium, one of the most influential philosophers of the mind talks about how the brain generates meaning without an inner “observer” sitting anywhere. What we experience is the result of a highly complex neural interpretation process that is constantly being rewritten, revised, and adapted. How do thoughts really arise? Why do we hear the world the way we hear it? And what does this mean for consciousness, artificial intelligence, and our understanding of the self? A fascinating deep dive into the architecture of thought. 📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

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