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You are referring to the soft problem of consciousness, which is not what the argument is about. I too am convinced that the hard problem of consciousness is be
by placebo 9y ago
You are referring to the soft problem of consciousness, which is not what the argument is about. I too am convinced that the hard problem of consciousness is beyond the scope of science. It is beyond science not in the sense that it violates the laws of physics but because when you get right down to it, your consciousness is the only "real" thing that you can ever know about. Everything else you supposedly "know" - every concept, every derived "laws" of physics are thought models
which you only know by being conscious of them. A very crude analogy would be to say that consciousness is like a camera that enables science to be done, but the camera can't take a picture of itself.
- RivieraKid 9y agoFinally a consciousness-related opinion I can 100% agree with. The camera analogy is spot on. How did you develop this opinion / way of looking at things?
- placebo 9y agoDecades of struggling with the question and scrutinizing what others came up with :) Nothing I've mentioned though is original or new - just took some time to filter out the noise, look carefully and honestly and connect the dots.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThe camera can in fact take a picture of itself - if there's a mirror. (But it can never take a picture of the mirror - just what the mirror reflects!) So, what would be a mirror for consciousness? Is there one?
- lefnire 9y agoAI