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The hard problem of consciousness, as I understand it, is that, subjectively speaking, it does not appear possible to reduce actual conscious experience into some structure or mechanism, even in ...
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The hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how subjective experiences of the world can exist. I do not understand how is this a problem in the first place, given that: The "why"...
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Glancing at a couple of the harder problems of philosophy, they still seem to be anchored in the assumption that there was a Designer who chose details of our current psychology/biology/physics/...
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In identity theory, mental events just are certain physical events in the brain. The hard problem of consciousness is about how certain physical events give rise to certain mental events. But isn’t ...
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Scientific explanations usually involve some sort of relations between different things that can be written down through mathematics or other forms of language. I’m not sure how one could even ...
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In the debate on the nature of consciousness, especially concerning views like epiphenomenalism, can we design experiments to test whether consciousness, regardless of its underlying nature, has ...
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To avoid confusion, take the next paragraph as a thought experiment rather than literally. We do know that light is made of photons (not atoms.) The goal is to generate an intuition about ...
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Easy problems Does neural activity cause consciousness? We explain how magnets interact in terms of magnetic fields. We make a mathematical model that makes testable predictions and includes a ...
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Searle explains in videos and papers his vision of Biological Materialism. The approach is elegant; the crucial part that he gets right -in my opinion- is that there isn't an explanatory gap but has a ...
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If in the quantum realm observation is the factor that determines the collapse of the wave function into generating form and reality, then is consciousness not simply the act of the mind observing ...
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The belief that there is somehow a fundamental, essential, or irreducible distinction between the so-called first-person and the third-person perspectives on consciousness seems to me a metaphysical ...
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From Wiki, random but structured exchanges online, I came to know of The Hard Problem Of Consciousness, which has been interpreted in multiple ways, one of which is, science is objective and ...
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As far as I know, the current philosophical consensus is that chatbots like ChatGPT are not conscious. However, in analogy with philosophical zombies, would it be possible to have a "...
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In the current applied ethics debate, a serious push to anthropomorphize or understand AI in human terms is underway. What many scholars point to is how LLMs allow AI to replicate and respond to our ...
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In the positivist tradition, it is common to “dissolve” certain ideas as being meaningless, and not worth further consideration. The statements corresponding to those elements of our mental experience,...
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