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It also has conscious experience: sensation of (probably) colored sight, it can feel pain, fear, etc. Where are these sensations located in the material univers
by zvmaz 3y ago
It also has conscious experience: sensation of (probably) colored sight, it can feel pain, fear, etc. Where are these sensations located in the material universe? They are nowhere to be found under a microscope!
- teekert 3y agoThey are things that emerge at a higher level indeed, and could be considered a state of the matter that makes up the being, at a specific time. We don't look for minecraft mobs by pointing a microscope at a cpu, right?
- epgui 3y agoYou can’t see countries under a microscope either, but that doesn’t mean countries are magic.
- haswell 3y agoWe’re all just playing an extremely complex language game and assigning labels to phenomena with increasing granularity as our knowledge and ability to measure things and create accurate world models increases. But at the bottom of it all, we have no idea what any of it is. The map is not the territory, and primordial existence has no current explanation. This isn’t synonymous with endorsing untenable metaphysical beliefs, but points to the fact that we still have enormous gaps in our understanding.