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>Why are propositions about consciousness different from propositions about faeries? Ultimately they are not. It's just that the evidence points towards an ext
by Tenoke 5y ago
>Why are propositions about consciousness different from propositions about faeries?
Ultimately they are not. It's just that the evidence points towards an extremely low chance of fairies being real and extremely high chance of others being conscious in a comparable manner to how you are conscious.
- burrows 5y agoSo then is one of these propositions true? Every North American faerie weighs more than 10kg. Every North American faerie weighs 10kg or less.
- josephcsible 5y agoBoth of those propositions are true. I don't see the connection to consciousness though.
- burrows 5y agoAre there truths that are neither tautological (mathematical) nor empirical? I would suggest those statements are only meaningful if in principle we could measure the weight of a faerie. As another example, I suggest that “Every idea weighs more than 10kg” and “Every idea weighs 10kg or less” are both not meaningful, because it is not possible to measure the weight of a given idea. And so consider a claim like, “Consciousness has property X”, how can I decide whether or not such a claim is true? edit: That last claim should have been, “Some other person’s consciousness has property X”.