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Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by 53r3PB9769ba on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:38PM (#33209106)
Maybe I'm a p-zombie then, because I just don't get it.

I've spent hours upon hours thinking about thinking and observing my own thought processes and I don't see anything that couldn't be explained scientifically.

Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by namero999 on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:13PM (#33209424)
One must explain how the jump from quantities to qualities works.
Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by notfed on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:18PM (#33209467)
For starters:

- Why is there something rather than nothing?

- Does a universe with no one in it to observe it count as something or nothing?

Then, imagine we're building an AI and want to know whether it's reached our level or not:

- How can we determine whether the AI experiences qualia the same (or similar) way we do, and isn't lying?

- Where to draw the line between conscious being and computer?

Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by agitator on Friday October 14, 2022 @07:07PM (#33209859)
How do you know if the people to your left or right experience sensations the same way you do?

When they look at the sky does their mind paint the sky with the same color?

Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by bobobob420 on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:31PM (#33210393)
Scientific method was created for this
Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by notfed on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:24PM (#33210689)
False. It's unfalsifiable. There is no experiment possible that you can set up to answer these questions, any more than you can construct an experiment to prove whether there is a God.
Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by oldstrangers on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:53PM (#33211575)
Why am I me and not you? Why am I not everyone? Am I everyone? Is consciousness an illusion? Is consciousness specific to an individual or do we all start with a 'base consciousness' that evolves with age? What is the chemical, physical or biological process responsible for consciousness? Does consciousness exist on an atomic level? Why do electrons appear to be conscious? Why can't we quantify it? Can we transfer it? Do trees or fungi have consciousness? Why or why not? What's the minimal requirement for consciousness? Is constitutive panpsychism real? Is consciousness a latent property of the universe?

Etc.