I understand that I don't want to be "celebrating ignorance" like this:Do you want to understand?
Celebrating ignorance. — Daemon
It's just that she can't reflect about it.
9mOptions — Olivier5
So you feel consciousness exists in all parts of the body? — GLEN willows
I think it's more logical to say that taking out a chunk of your body other than your brain will affect your consciousness the same way seeing something sad does. It has an effect on it, but doesn't actually remove part of it. — GLEN willows
So are you saying it's "nowhere" or "everywhere?" And do you mean YOUR consciousness, or a general pan-psych kind of universal consciousness? — GLEN willows
1. A first person experience of the world. It needs to be an entity that can wander around and see by itself what elephants and rainbows look like. — Olivier5
I can’t think of anything else that so many people insist is unexplainable. — GLEN willows
Let's agree to disagree on consciousness, we've covered the territory. Please? — GLEN willows
I think only living things are entities of the appropriate kind. A single-celled organism is an entity because of the way the cell wall separates it from its environment. It isn't conscious, but this individuation is a necessary step on the way to consciousness.
Maybe achieving that individuation, creating genuine entities, is the real Hard Problem. — Daemon
Then consciousness is not the same as intelligence. A system can be intelligent without be conscious. — Jackson
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