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Fair question, but my problem (and I could be misunderstanding his position) is that he doesn't provide any cohesive explanation or line of reasoning why there'
by gmaster1440 6y ago
Fair question, but my problem (and I could be misunderstanding his position) is that he doesn't provide any cohesive explanation or line of reasoning why there's subjective experience effectively accompanying these "drives" at all.
The hard problem would put this in the category of easy problems[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness#Easy_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness#...
- wombatmobile 6y agoPerhaps I don't understand what the hard problem is? Is it this thing of trying to find the little man inside of your head that is viewing the television screen that displays the images that go in through your eyes? Could you help me to see what the hard problem is?
- onjectic 6y agoConsciousness is the ghost in the machine that seems to be unnecessary to the functioning and behavior of the machine. All of your interactions with the outside world can be explained by the signals in your brain, even our discussion of consciousness can easily be explained by physical/measurable processes. This conversation would still happen in a universe without any conscious entities . Of course you can build a machine that can recursively think about its self, and in turn speak about this self awareness. This should all be able to happen without there being a subjective experience of that self-awareness. So why is anything experienced at all.
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