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Phantom pains exist. Those aren't functional. Also, it's easy to distinguish the functional part of the system from the experience of pain. We do it a...

You still have the appearance of colors, pains, etc that need explaining. Claiming they don't have phenomenal properties doesn't explain away their ap...

But the very fact of having an inner experience is evidence in favor of the hard problem. If color and sound are illusions, those experiences still ne...

I don't think mindless sensations are coherent. The sky isn't blue when nobody sees it. It's not any color. What it is are scattering photons, some of...

I've fed ChatGPT a fictional story from a show that didn't exist at the September 2021 cutoff date for it's training data, and the AI is pretty good a...

I watched a Quinn's Ideas YT video about blindsight a few months ago. Sounded interesting. https://youtu.be/QuPLk1Zt1-U

You can prompt LLMs like ChatGPT to do that. Some people have been playing with hooking the OpenAI api to robots and prompt ChatGPT to control the rob...

It clarifies the conceptual problem for physicalism. If you think we have phenomenal consciousness, then how do you square that with physicalism? If y...

Yeah, it's a more evocative way of specifying what the debate over the hard problem is about. But I'd rephrase it as whether functional/physical prope...

This is such an obvious thing that it's weird when people dispute it. What would it possibly mean to be wrong? We all do have private experiences that...

We can't if Boltzmann brains and brain simulations are a possibility. Or just simply performing the functions that are correlated with consciousness. ...

Well if nature is fundamentally physical, then subjective experience doesn't conceptually fit. The biological level is still function and structure.

And subjective experience is necessary for that? How do organisms without nervous systems survive? Are all living nervous systems conscious?

We don't even really know what 'matter' is. Could be quantum fields or vibrating 10 dimensional strings. Or maybe everything in physics is a kind of a...

Depends on whether we are cognitively capable of providing an answer. Can we answer all questions? Some philosophical questions have remained unanswer...

If that's the case, then we can rule out machine consciousness, and consciousness arising in other non-biological systems, like meteor showers that ju...

That's a just-so story. How did evolution produce conscious experiences? It's not over because you declare it over. We're having the debate write now ...

Why should we accept that definition for machine consciousness? It's not the same thing as qualia. You just created an arbitrary definition and assign...

An example of misalignment with information technology is social networks. At first they were hailed as a major benefit to humanity, bringing us close...

That would be an anti-realist interpretation. Sean Carol is a realist about the wave-function, so he thinks there literally is a multiverse, at least ...

Reasonable as in making sense within the MWI interpretation. MWI needs to be self-consistent and not have to introduce anything from outside the wave-...

That's informative and interesting. So once inflation ends, the multiverse begins, until De Sitter space, when there's nothing left to decohere and ma...

So, coming back to this thread after many days away, Sean Carol has stated a solution to the Boltzmann Brain problem is that there won't be any observ...

Keith Frankish's illusionism argument. That the brain is performing the equivalent of a magic show, tricking us into thinking there's something about ...

He has a very interesting idea on how to put MWI and wave-function collapse interpretations to the test. Assuming we can build a conscious AGI quantum...

As an aside, I was listening to Sean Carol being interviewed, and he made it sound like the very low probability events didn't happen, at least not ov...

I never said I wasn't crazy. Or didn't make typos, whoops.

It's obviously not the case if you've aware of savants or various neurological abnormalities, which you would hope educated people like philosophers a...

What about when you dream? I would put it more in terms of a VR headset kind of experience, particularly for lucid dreaming. Some people are really go...

Sabine Hossenfelder says it's not: https://youtu.be/kF6USB2I1iU

But that doesn't mean bats or other animals have the exact same set of sensations. We know that can't be true because many birds can see more than thr...

Even if so, that doesn't mean consciousness is understood functionally, as in we can provide a function which makes a system conscious. If we could, t...

Everett doesn't control how the interpretation develops after him. Sean Carrol, a current proponent of MWI, talks of universes splitting. There's a Un...

Agent Smith never did really understand what the Oracle was up to. Neither did the Architect until the end. There's several good YT videos that do a d...

I updated my comment and added a comment on Kant and the hard problem (that he would likely find it pointless).

Is Kant saying we reason that the real world responsible for our senses is beyond our perceptions and reason? There is a real world responsible for us...

Problem is you have to square this with actual observations, which have classical results when a measurement is performed. I'll refer you back to what...

We certainly have problems drawing the line on which life forms are conscious. And we can't say what sort of sensations animals with different sensory...

Chalmers espoused a property dualism in one of his books where any informationally rich system would be conscious. He's more predisposed to finding a ...

Ned Block wrote a paper on the Harder Problem of Consciousness using the android Data from Star Trek to illustrate the problem that we can't tell whet...

True, but a sufficiently armed group of people are not likely to be anarchists. Sure, but the alternative has been mob justice, which is judged histor...

And if people violate those mutual obligations, or wish to be violent? What do you do with Viking marauders or pirates? Warlords, criminal gangs, seri...

And what if I want to do things that are harmful to others, because I'm a selfish cunt and don't agree with rules against exploiting others? How does ...

And if their will is to harm others, what then? What if their will is to control others? Or maybe they just want to burn down the nearby forest becaus...

Wouldn't that just mean the results could be in a superpositioned state until some human makes an observation? That's the basis of Schrodinger's criti...

Does that work for colors? Do you think if someone said you would be seeing a gold dress that it would necessarily mean you saw it as gold and not blu...

If this were true, then we'd have no trouble figuring out what sort of colors a tetrachromatic bird sees, or what sort of smells a dog experiences. It...

In typical philosophy forum fashion, nobody can quite agree on the terms under dispute, in part because we have our philosophical commitments to uphol...

I've read Color Realism and Color Science before. It is a good overview. Seemed like a quality attempt at defending color realism, even if I'm prone t...

I didn't cite him. I'm not aware of Locke being a direct realist. Maybe with regards to primary qualities? You can read a summary about color primitiv...