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The concreteness is your own subjective experience. All this other stuff about constructive processes and zombies is word play. It doesn't change your experienc
by goatlover 7y ago
The concreteness is your own subjective experience. All this other stuff about constructive processes and zombies is word play. It doesn't change your experience.
The issue is providing a scientific explanation for how the physical world produces, emerges, or is identical to consciousness. Arguments like p-zombies and Mary the color scientist are meant to showwe don't know how to come up with such an explanation, because our scientific understanding is objective and abstract, while our experiences are subjective and concrete.
I prefer Nagel's approach to the hard problem, as he goes to the heart of the matter, which is the difference between objective explanation and subjective experience. Science is the view from nowhere (abstract, mathematic, functional), while we experience the world as being from somewhere as embodied beings, not equations.