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But there isn't? What does it factually mean to be conscious? How can we claim other living beings aren't are conscious?
by lnenad 1mo ago
But there isn't? What does it factually mean to be conscious? How can we claim other living beings aren't are conscious?
- fasterik 1mo agoWe don't know yet because we don't have a fundamental theory of consciousness. My money is on that it's an objective property of the structure of computation happening in the brain.
- ryanSrich 1mo agoConsciousness can factually exist even though another being’s subjective experience is not directly observable. we can measure its behavioral and neural correlates and infer consciousness from them but we cannot directly observe the experience itself or conclusively prove its absence in another being. I don't think we'll ever get to a point where subjective experience in another is directly observable. But I don't think we need that to happen to prove consciousness factually exists.
- applicative 1mo agoThat a thing is /red/ is directly observable (by people with good eyesight etc) but what the OP was ineptly driving at presumably holds of redness.
- jampekka 1mo agoCorrelates to what exactly? To behavior or processes we assume subjective experience is present in?