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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to prove anything about consciousn... by explanatorygap on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @02:43PM (#35265402)
Depends entirely on what you mean by "prove". If you mean "explain or understand how physical processes give rise to conscious experience" or "from third-person observation, know with any kind of certainty whether a given system is conscious" - you run into what philosophers call the "explanatory gap" and/or the "hard problem". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

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