My thoughts on the Hard problem of consciousness

[bennyboy]

By truth-in-context, I mean that reality is paradoxically multi-faceted, and which facet you are presented with depends on context. Basically, using the idea of quantum superposition, I'd say that reality itself is in a state of superposition: physical/ideal/dual/other-- but that reality doesn't really "resolve" until someone attempts to interact with it. In other words, I don't think the squirrelly-ness of QM particles is a local quirk; I think it indicates very much how reality itself works.

The Universe, I believe, will forever resist our attempts to pin it down. But we do have one stroke of good fortune-- in a particular context, we can usually make observations and collect ideas which unlock new contexts for us to explore.

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but unless you truly see no difference between the context that is dreaming and the context that is waking reality... then you know what I mean by it. Or arguing that they are equally valid in shaping the truth, or even causing it, since they're coherent contexts (ideas)?

Clearly, it's hard to talk about universal idealism, which is a collection of immaterial formative principles, and "ideas" which we have when experiencing the world or even when dreaming, without conflating them. I'd agree with you and Khemikal that human ideas are things encoded and experienced in the brain-- though why we have a subjective experience of that is a mystery.


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Maybe I can start describing myself as a superpositional realist or something. I'll have to think about that.