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it feels obvious that I have conscience, but how do you prove or disprove that claim? Why do you need to prove the obvious? It feels obvious that earth is fla
by narag 10y ago
it feels obvious that I have conscience, but how do you prove or disprove that claim?
Why do you need to prove the obvious?
It feels obvious that earth is flat
It doesn't if you climb a mountain or see a ship under the horizon. It's a very thin layer of "obviousness" that disappears with very little reasoning.
There's nothing similar for consciousness, on the contrary every argument that has been tried against it feels terribly clumsy and artificial.
- otikik 10y agoThe question already has uses. It is worth asking ourselves wether other animals are conscious. It is worth asking ourselves whether a human phoetus is conscious. And sooner or later we will need to ask ourselves wether machines are conscious.
- narag 10y agoThe first two questions are tricky. The third is really the reason we're reading about consciousness so often. But I'm not sure that questioning consciousness reality itself is so useful to replicate it.