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You are the first one in this thread to say "doesn't exist", yet you put it in quotes. No one is trying to tell you that consciousness doesn't exist. The quest
by rspeer 10y ago
You are the first one in this thread to say "doesn't exist", yet you put it in quotes.
No one is trying to tell you that consciousness doesn't exist. The question is whether the "hard problem of consciousness" is a thing: that is, a well-formed topic of scientific inquiry.
- TaupeRanger 10y ago"Isn't a thing" is synonymous with "doesn't exist". Pedantry aside, the existence of the hard problem and the existence of consciousness entail the same questions. The general question is simply this: how can we explain our subjective conscious experiences in terms of physical processes?