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>>> But the question of how subjective experience, particularly in the human nervous system, arises from physical processes is really uninteresting to me. And
by smnplk 3y ago
>>> But the question of how subjective experience, particularly in the human nervous system, arises from physical processes is really uninteresting to me.
And yet it is one of the most interesting and profound question that kept philosophers and scientists awake at night for centuries. Even Ed Witten said that he has a much easier time imagining humans understanding the big bang than to ever understand consciousness.
- zero-sharp 3y agoI mean, you understand that there's plenty of thinkers who have different opinions on the matter, right? There's plenty of questions of the past that kept philosophers awake that are really mundane today. And again, I still don't know why we speculate so much about something we can't yet examine scientifically and test. It's one thing to have an incomplete scientific model, it's another thing to have philosophical arguments. What is the operational definition of consciousness? Is there one?