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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by MacsHeadroom on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:42AM (#39863375)
Subjective experience is the awareness of an internal representation.
Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by chongli on Saturday March 30, 2024 @06:58AM (#39873657)
What is awareness then? Do you see my point? Either you end up with a circle of references or an infinite regress of definitions to describe the ineffable.

It’s the problem of qualia [1]. They can’t really be defined, only pointed at. My experience of seeing the colour red is non-universalizable. Thus the word red can only point at it, it can’t describe or define it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia