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If recent philosophy taught us anything it's that brains are special. The hard problem of consciousness shows science is insufficient to raise to the level of e
by visarga 5y ago
If recent philosophy taught us anything it's that brains are special. The hard problem of consciousness shows science is insufficient to raise to the level of entitlement of humans, we're exceptions flying over the physical laws of nature, we have free will, first person POV, and other magical stuff like that. Or we have to believe in panpsychism or dualism, like in the middle ages. Anything to lift the human status.
Maybe we should start by "humans are the greatest thing ever" and then try to fit our world knowledge to that conclusion. We feel it right in our qualia that we are right, and qualia is ineffable.
- maroonblazer 5y ago> The hard problem of consciousness shows science is insufficient to raise to the level of entitlement of humans, we're exceptions raising over the physical laws of nature, we have free will and other magical stuff like that. That's not my understanding of the 'hard problem of consciousness'. Admittedly, all I know about the subject is what I've heard from D Chalmers in half-a-dozen podcast interviews. Can you point to a definitive source?