Philosophy of Mind / Cognitive Neuroscience

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Here’s what’s wrong with Dennett’s homunculus exception.  It’s a bit misleading to discuss a flow chart for a massively parallel system.  We’re accustomed to high bandwidth interfaces between modules where high bandwidth is implemented as a high rate of transmission through a narrow pipe.  In the brain, high bandwidth is implemented as a leisurely rate of transmission through the Mississippi river delta.

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