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Brain waves existing or even being crucial to consciousness in humans doesn't really say anything in itself. Like for all anyone knows, they're simply present
by famouswaffles 2y ago
Brain waves existing or even being crucial to consciousness in humans doesn't really say anything in itself.
Like for all anyone knows, they're simply present to trigger (and keep triggered) "consciousness computations".
- quantadev 2y agoIf qualia itself is the actual waves themselves, then that [arguably] disproves the "Substrate Independence" view, which is that consciousness is a set of computations. You can build logic gates out of dominoes or even physical abacuses, but if qualia is made of waves no amount of "simulating it" via calculations is going to truly conjure it into existence.