What’s so hard about understanding consciousness?

Re:What’s so hard about understanding consciousness? by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday February 04, 2022 @05:41PM (#30214445)

If your answer to "how can anything be conscious" is "it just can, if the system meets these requirements", then obviously, that's the only answer and you may as well move on to "what are we conscious of?"

At this point, I'm not willing to regard consciousness as something like gravity or the weak force, though I concede that it could turn out that way.

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Re:What’s so hard about understanding consciousness? by BobbyJo on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:00PM (#30214690)

My personal train of thought is this: 1) We know consciousness exists (as far as evidence goes it has more than anything else since it is the conduit to everything else) and 2) We know it is composed, in some way and to some degree, of information.

Information might be a small piece, and it might be the thing itself, but it's the only tangible avenue we have to pursue, so I don't think it's a matter of them answering or discussing a different question, I think it's them framing the same question with slightly different assumptions.

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Re:What’s so hard about understanding consciousness? by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:08PM (#30214776)

> 2) We know it is composed, in some way and to some degree, of information.

I don't see how we can be said to know this, certainly not at this point in human investigation of consciousness.

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