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I'm curious about your doubting your own consciousness statement, given that "we humans are conscious" is pretty axiomic to its definition and one of the few pi
by in-silico 6mo ago
I'm curious about your doubting your own consciousness statement, given that "we humans are conscious" is pretty axiomic to its definition and one of the few pieces that most agree with.
- Kim_Bruning 6mo agoTake a look at Daniel Dennett, for starters! If you're looking for one of the genuine angles on this: Consciousness is horrendously under-defined, to the point some people go something like "you know, at this point I figure we'd be better off not having this word at all. " Some days that's me, with a headache.
- in-silico 6mo agoSo it's more of a semantic argument than an actual rejection of the idea that you experience qualia/sentience/something?
- joquarky 6mo agoWhat exactly is the "you" in your sentence?
- Kim_Bruning 6mo agoYou'd have to define those terms operationally first, somehow, before I could give you an honest reply. Most people can't -and those who do disagree- which suggests something structural. [It can be done. But it'll be dirty]
- reverius42 6mo agoDennett's whole thing is the rejection of qualia. See https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DennettQuiningQualia1988.pdf https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DennettQuiningQualia1988...