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Full Idea
Some tasks (playing the piano, speaking foreign languages, playing fast sports) are best performed when the agent is largely unconscious of the details.
Gist of Idea
Some activities are performed better without consciousness of them
Source
Fred Dretske (Naturalizing the Mind [1997], Ch.4 n16)
Book Ref
Dretske,Fred: 'Naturalizing the Mind' [MIT 1997], p.182
A Reaction
A significant point, but it supports the evolutionary view, which is that what matters is success, and consciousness will switch on or off, whichever promotes the activity best.
| 5801 | A mouse hearing a piano played does not believe it, because it lacks concepts and understanding [Dretske] |
| 5802 | Representations are in the head, but their content is not, as stories don't exist in their books [Dretske] |
| 5805 | Introspection does not involve looking inwards [Dretske] |
| 5803 | In a representational theory of mind, introspection is displaced perception [Dretske] |
| 5804 | A representational theory of the mind is an externalist theory of the mind [Dretske] |
| 5806 | Belief is the power of metarepresentation [Dretske] |
| 5807 | Introspection is the same as the experience one is introspecting [Dretske] |
| 5808 | Qualia are just the properties objects are represented as having [Dretske] |
| 5809 | Some activities are performed better without consciousness of them [Dretske] |
| 5800 | All mental facts are representation, which consists of informational functions [Dretske] |