Re:Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of...
by Marazan on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:11PM
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You don't know your own consciousness exists. You can just be experiencing something that is not consciousness but that you think is. That's the ludicrous banality of the Hard Problem.
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Re:Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of...
by rosser on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:21PM
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You can just be experiencing something that is not consciousness...
That's what consciousness is: to borrow Thomas Nagel's phrase (which Chalmers also uses frequently), "the thing that it feels like" to be something. By every reasonable definition I've ever heard — and I've studied and read about this stuff for decades — that's pretty much a constant: consciousness is the experiential part of ... you know, experience. Yes, it's entirely possible — even common — to be mistaken or misled about the content of your experience, but not the fact that you are experiencing.
In a discussion already absurdly full of sophistry, your comment should win a very large, gaudy prize.