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Absolutely not. After 2500 years, Western philosophy has yet to achieve broad consensus on anything at all. Philosophers don't have a clue what consciousness is
by aba_sababa 14y ago
Absolutely not. After 2500 years, Western philosophy has yet to achieve broad consensus on anything at all. Philosophers don't have a clue what consciousness is - they can barely even describe it without using utterly ambiguous words like "qualia" or "sense datum". The only way we'll ever be able to know anything about consciousness besides what's going on inside our own heads is for us to directly experience what's going on inside someone else's (or some animal's).
Not until the Singularity, basically. I'm not going to hold my breath for that one.