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Chalmers: “It is natural to hope that there will be a materialist solution to the hard problem and a reductive explanation of consciousness, just as there have
by hackandthink 5mo ago
Chalmers: “It is natural to hope that there will be a materialist solution to the hard problem and a reductive explanation of consciousness, just as there have been reductive explanations of many other phenomena in many other domains. But consciousness seems to resist materialist explanation in a way that other phenomena do not.”
"A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610723001128 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961072...
- n4r9 5mo agoThanks for the reference, that looks like a pretty thorough review. It seems to me that Chalmers already precludes the possibility of physical/materialist explanations with his claim, quoted in the first section: > There is a logically possible world physically identical to ours, in which the positive facts about consciousness in our world do not hold. This certainly doesn't feel obvious or intuitive to me. I would expect that someone with the same neuronal make-up will have the same experience.
- hackandthink 5mo agoIt is neither obvious nor intuitive. But it is logical possible that we all are Zombies. In my regard the weak link is our understanding of materialism. It is to simple minded. (though panpsychism sounds really crank)
- n4r9 5mo agoNo, I mean that the logical possibility itself is neither obvious nor intuitive. If you physically copied me atom by atom, every instinct in me says that the result has conscious experience. I'd need some serious convincing otherwise.