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Trying to reduce consciousness to memory is such a laughable misunderstanding of what consciousness is

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• leoh 4y ago
  Okay
• yazzku 4y ago
  So what is it?
  • canadiantim 4y ago
    Consciousness is just consciousness, it's not reduceable to brain states; it's fundamentally different even though they are associated and related. See Qualia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
    • kelseyfrog 4y ago
      Tautologies are ultimately useless descriptions. We may as well be saying Blanchesness is Blanchessness.
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    • mannykannot 4y ago
      This alleged fact is not established by any of the arguments summarized in that article. Look into them in detail, and you will find, at root, subtle (and not-so-subtle) question-begging and appeals to plausibility.