Here is a very thought provoking video by Sam Harris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH3-SfXLX5k
with title:
CNN | Sam Harris - It Is Always Now | FULL HD
His hypothesis is that our conscious experience is the
result a posteriori of our explanation, or description of now.
Let that hypothesis stand as an assumption in that theory
which describes what exists.
Then behavior and sensing is purely mechanical without
any involvement of the decision making us.
After the sensing is done at instant t, we use that
information mechanically to perform behavior b.
Behavior b also can change our state X:
b.1: dx = A*x + B*i
which is the vector state equation for the canonical vector
linear system description we all know and love, so we may as well add the
output equation y:
b.2: dy = C*x + D*i
That extra term i is the instantaneous input vector,
as we all know. And of course x and y are the state vector
and the output vector, respectively. Remember?
What Sam Harris is saying seems to be that our behavior b,
which is sensed by the observer at time t, must have been already beginning at
time t-k, but the observer of the said system (system "us") has the
sensation of observing "us" at time t-k+1.
Does anyone else see a usefulness in constructing a
generic discrete linear model as a top level node in a time sensitive ontology
that must run in real time?
Sincerely,
Rich
Cooper,
Rich Cooper,
Chief Technology Officer,
MetaSemantics Corporation
MetaSemantics AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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