Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.

I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk

  • itsPina [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    29 天前

    but you can’t really point to a way in which there’s a specific physical property of neurons that enables consciousness, as you said.

    There is no “enabling” consciousness. Consciousness is simply first person experience. The hum of the machine. It’s all calculations all at once aimed toward homeostasis. We can pick away every sense you have until there is no consciousness left.

    Consciousness seems to be agentic. A unified experience that the universe obviously doesn’t have because we are subjectively experiencing it.

    but you can’t really point to a way in which there’s a specific physical property of neurons that enables consciousness, as you said.

    We can certainly point to specific physical properties that prevent consciousness from ever arising. If I snap froze your brain you would lose consciousness, if we snap unfroze you you would resume consciousness from the moment we unfroze you.