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My position is that the qalia are simulated by our brains as an evolutionary response to "this organism has to recognize it's continuity and unity across space
by orwin 5mo ago
My position is that the qalia are simulated by our brains as an evolutionary response to "this organism has to recognize it's continuity and unity across space and time", and the more the brain is developed, the strongest this impression has to be.
I'll admit my position was built not to explain the hard problem of consciousness, but to find a philosophical answers to animals and newborn reactions to the mirror test, but I found it satisfactory enough when I heard about the hard problem of consciousness. My main argument for it is not an attack, it's simply Hanlon's razor. If you find a simpler explanation that doesn't demand new understanding, I will listen to it, if you do not, you have to show me the simplest solution is wrong, and I'll go to the second simplest.
- suddenlybananas 5mo agoHow do we experience that though?
- lostmsu 5mo agoThe neural connections get rewired.
- card_zero 5mo agoHanlon's razor? That one is "never assume malice where stupidity will do". You want Occam's razor, or the word "parsimonious".
- mangolie 5mo agoThat does not explain how it is possible for a simulation to experience itself
- orwin 5mo agoIt doesn't. It has the illusion of experience.
- cgio 5mo agoBy saying it’s simulated you don’t make a simplification. What does it simulate? What are the mechanics of simulation and is it substrate specific or independent? Can a computer simulate these qualia? It’s easy to say something is simple but harder to prove it is any simpler than the alternatives.