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How does one prove that the silicon chip in your computer has no subjective experience? How does one prove another human being has a subjective experience? Unti
by jjk166 5y ago
How does one prove that the silicon chip in your computer has no subjective experience? How does one prove another human being has a subjective experience? Until someone figures out how consciousness arises from physical processes, we have no way of knowing whether consciousness has or has not arisen from any given physical process.
- faraaz98 5y agoWell scientists don't claim that my cpu has feelings
- jjk166 5y agoNor do scientists claim this blob of cells has feelings, but here we are.
- sdiupIGPWEfh 5y agoI would presume the actual scientists involved either (a) know that these blobs of cells are as incapable of subjective experience as my appendix or else (b) know there is no scientific basis for claiming one way or the other, though they may well share my belief that it is unlikely. Now, I would be quite pleased if science journalism would do away with making such claims in either direction without further elaboration.