Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)

Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015) by YjSe2GMQ on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:14PM (#19039570)

I think he meant that consciousness is currently irreducible. Consider this:

1. Someone figures out in a lab all possible causes of fear via the surveying method. Fear seems solved.

2. New people appear that claim to experience fear when someone taps their left feet.

3. You have to redo 1. Therefore fear wasn't solved in the first place.

Replace "tapping left feet" with something more obscure, or fear with pain, to continue.

Underlying problem: you cannot compute the "preimage" of fear.

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Re:Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015) by mannykannot on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:47PM (#19039901)

If I am following your line of argument, it would seem to apply to biology in general, which is not complete, yet which is effective at explaining lots of things, as well as able to assimilate new discoveries.

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