Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness

[Rhondazvous]

That was one of my stupid deadpan jokes that obviously missed the mark I was just being silly regarding solipsism.

It happens to the best of us.

I don't have anything again Harris, I think he's amazing in fact.

It seems we will always come up against the barrier of knowing how consciousness, or other similar phenomena, "feels" to the thing experiencing it. I "feel" certain ways, but I can never ever be sure that anyone or anything else actually "feels" anything.

The point I'm trying to make is that we can only "measure" consciousness indirectly by observing the kind of things consciousness causes. We can't measure the actual experience itself, not yet anyway. Maybe one day there will be some weird technology that actually allows us to "experience" another life form's version of consciousness.

Of course, I'm expecting too much of science because we can only ever measure anything indirectly anyway.

It wasn't that long ago when someone in the field declared that the cranium and abdomen are forever closed to medical science. The true scientist avoids words like "forever" and "never."