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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by orwin on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:39AM (#48176558)
My position is that the qalia are simulated by our brains as an evolutionary response to "this organism has to recognize it's continuity and unity across space and time", and the more the brain is developed, the strongest this impression has to be.

I'll admit my position was built not to explain the hard problem of consciousness, but to find a philosophical answers to animals and newborn reactions to the mirror test, but I found it satisfactory enough when I heard about the hard problem of consciousness. My main argument for it is not an attack, it's simply Hanlon's razor. If you find a simpler explanation that doesn't demand new understanding, I will listen to it, if you do not, you have to show me the simplest solution is wrong, and I'll go to the second simplest.

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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by suddenlybananas on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:53AM (#48176644)
How do we experience that though?
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by lostmsu on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:43AM (#48176923)
The neural connections get rewired.
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by card_zero on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:39AM (#48176885)
Hanlon's razor? That one is "never assume malice where stupidity will do". You want Occam's razor, or the word "parsimonious".
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by mangolie on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:55AM (#48177003)
That does not explain how it is possible for a simulation to experience itself
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by orwin on Thursday May 21, 2026 @09:38AM (#48222382)
It doesn't. It has the illusion of experience.
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Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' by cgio on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:03AM (#48177056)
By saying it’s simulated you don’t make a simplification. What does it simulate? What are the mechanics of simulation and is it substrate specific or independent? Can a computer simulate these qualia? It’s easy to say something is simple but harder to prove it is any simpler than the alternatives.
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