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> The brain is a wet computer. Reality is its internal model of the external world informed by imperfect sensory inputs. Consciousness is what thinking feels li
by gmaster1440 8y ago
> The brain is a wet computer. Reality is its internal model of the external world informed by imperfect sensory inputs. Consciousness is what thinking feels like.
You're undermining the hard problem of consciousness[1] by ignoring subjectivity of experience. Even if one day we understand everything there is to know about the brain in a materialistic manner, it's not clear that we'll also understand the emergence of subjective experience from it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness