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Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:27AM (#33215644)
> To ask what something _is_ implies reduction. You want a description of experience in terms of something else. So you are begging the question, having already concluded that it's not fundamental.

This is not true. When people have asked "what is gravity" and they determine that its a fundamental, non-decomposable force within the universe, they are not disappointed. That's still an answer.

"Consciousness is a fundamental property of <X> in our universe" is a perfectly fine answer to the question "What is consciousness". It's just not the answer that most people currently find most likely.

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Re:What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: Nineteen Ways of Lookin... by namero999 on Sunday October 16, 2022 @10:04AM (#33223699)
I actually think we are in agreement here. My stance is that it is fundamental and doesn't need to/can't be reduced, therefore explained in terms of something else. If the question is simply meant in a descriptive way, then the answer "consciousness is all there is" is perfectly fine.
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