>>10878966>Doesn't make sense, when a receiver's busted it doesn't suddenly overload your TV with information, it just fails to receive it.You're not mapping the analogy correctly.
First of all I want to make it clear I'm saying the "receiver" model for consciousness is completely retarded and wrong since you're putting me in the awkward position now of having to explain how the thing I disagree with works and without this clarification sentence I'd probably just confuse other anons into thinking I was arguing in favor of it.
That out of the way, the idea is your consciousness is the signal and it comes from outside your body / brain rather than it being produced by your brain.
So the TV you're talking about would be your body / brain, NOT your consciousness.
Note that this model is used to argue that when you die your consciousness is freed up from your bodily limitations and you experience total clarity and knowledge as a non-physical entity (like in that short story this was a response to).
Hence why the "receiver" model is wrong. If this scenario were really the case you would become more aware and more "yourself" with Alzeheimer's since it'd be the breakdown of that supposed filtering functionality your brain is serving in this way of thinking on how consciousness works. Instead what we see supports the idea the brain is in fact generating mental content rather than receiving it since people deteriorate and become less themselves and more like brain dead infants in adult bodies the more Alzheimer's eats away at their brain.
