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Posted: 23 Apr 2017

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Reading at the speed of sight •
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Mark Seidenberg •
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Being No One •
Thomas Matzinger •

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Reading -- thinking, feeling, anticipating.....

Reading -- thinking, feeling, anticipating.....
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 Dinesh
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That person can read with good comprehension at about four to five words per second. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone has approximately 77,000 words. At five words per second, the book could be read in a little over four hours theoretically.

The number seems unrealistic because it ignores the many events that affect actual reading times: opening the book (or ebook), finding your place, rereading a little of the text to get reoriented, rereading a sentence, losing your place, turning the page, daydreaming, petting the cat, removing the cat, and the many other little disturbances of everyday reading life. Or pausing to experience what you've read '' thinking, feeling, anticipating -- or rereading a section for pure pleasure, efficiency be damned. Let's not even consider all the distractions packed with your e-reading device. If you didn't finish 'Sorcerer's in 4.5 hours don't feel badly. You might have actually spent about that much time on just the reading part. Think of 4.5 hours as the EPA mileage estimate, which is better than obtained in the real world but good enough for comparative purposes. ~ Page 60
7 years ago.
 Dinesh
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. . . . Phenomenology supervenes on internally realized functional properties. If you now look at the book in your hands, you are not aware of the highly complex ‘neural’ process in your visual cortex, but of the content of a phenomenal mental model which is first of all generated by this process within you. If, at the same time, you introspectively observe the mental states evoked in you by reading this -- maybe boredom, emotional resistance, or sudden interest -- then the contents of your consciousness are mental representata and not the neural process of construction itself. There is a content-vehicle distinction. In short, if we talk about the contents of subjective experience, we do not talk about the underlying process under a ‘neuroscientific description.’ What we talk about are phenomenal “content properties,” abstract features of concrete states in the head. At least under a classic conception of representation there is a difference between vehicle properties and content properties. ` Page 22 Excerpt: "Being No One" - Thomas Matzinger
3 years ago.

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