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Re:What’s so hard about understanding consciousness? by beardedetim on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:56AM (#30208443)
I think they're two sides of the same coin.

_How_ do we have any experience will be more easily answered the more we know about _what_ we actually experience. And _what_ we experience is predicated upon _how_ we experience it. I agree both need investigating.

The _bigger_ question I see the coin representing is _who or what_ is experiencing in the first place? The way I see it, it's not really _a thing_ experiencing _something_ but instead _things_ experiencing _things_ at _times_.

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Re:What’s so hard about understanding consciousness? by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:16AM (#30208741)
That presupposes that (a) panpsychism or semi-panpsychism is false (i.e. that qualia are not inherent properties of either anything at all, nor of "any sufficiently complex system") and that (b) there is a "how" that can be answered.

I agree with you about the "things experiencing things at times".

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