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How do we know consciousness is real, and we're not just the same as robots or a tv series? Couldn't every moment throughout the universe have been encoded in e

• mcronce 3y ago
  That's certainly possible, but it doesn't make your experiences any less real
  • dilyevsky 3y ago
    It certainly does because in this case there is no “you”
    • msarchet 3y ago
      You is a very loaded word here.
    • ben_w 3y ago
      "There is a thought now" has real experiences without anything we would normally want to call a real experiencer.
    • mcronce 3y ago
      And yet here you are reading that comment, writing this one... And those experiences are real.
      • dilyevsky 3y ago
        Says who?
        • mcronce 3y ago
          You, me, and anybody else reading the comments. If you want to disagree on the metaphysics or whatever go ahead, but this is already proving to be a huge waste of time and I'm not particularly interested.
• Ycombigatorz 3y ago
  How do you know that when you touch a chair that that sensation is real?
  • msarchet 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia[1] - is what you are now describing mixed with a little bit of Maxwell's Demon[2] - something is intercepting between you and a true experience. Real, in the way I believe you are trying to express, is a complicated topic. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
    • ben_w 3y ago
      I'm nit picking here, but I think you meant Cartesian demon?