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There you go introducing more useless new terms that serve nothing but to obfuscate understanding.  “Internal Surrogate”  Is that another  homunculus?

Look.  We are on the Boardwalk. We see a child with a red balloon.  Our eyes along with other parts of our neurological system, are essential to this particular perception.  Later we fall asleep and dream about the child and the red balloon.  Our eyes are closed so there are no lightwaves to perceive the redness of the balloon.  Oh but wait!  There are no stimuli present at all –  no boardwalk, no child, no balloon.  Yet we still see it in the dream.  We see all of the stuff, not just the red stuff.  EVEN THO OUR EYES ARE CLOSED.

It is SOOO mysterious, ooooo oooooooooh.  Then I take out a video I made of the walk.  There is the boardwalk, the child, the balloon.  How can such a terribly mysterious thing be?  The boardwalk, the child, the balloon are not present, but the recording is still present to be seen.  (What I’m getting at, is that remembering is also a mental behavior.)

Now if the video was in black and white, I wouldn’t see the redness of the balloon.

If I were Jake, the colorblind guy, before he ever donned the special glasses that let him see colors, then I could not dream of a red balloon, because I had never seen “red” before.  My brain would not have been capable of having a dream with colors in it that I had never seen.  But AFTER I had directly seen red, my brain could have a dream behavior in which I saw red things.