The View from Within Computers find it easy to do what we learned at school. Indeed, we may say that the perceptions of an object is an hypothesis. We do not see what we sense. We see what we think we sense. Picasso asked the questioner what he meant.
Visual input passes through the thalamus before getting to the cortex.
The essence of consciousness of the outside world. When a number of nerve cells oscillate in synchrony at forty hertz, this is attention. Consciousness of the will to carry out an act decided on by ourselves occurs almost half a second after the brain has started carrying out the decision. Consciousness portrays itself as the initiator but it is a fraud which requires considerable cooking of the temporal books. Man is not primarily conscious.