RE: Good read on consciousness
January 7, 2021 at 10:28 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2021 at 10:30 pm by GrandizerII.)
Admittedly, my reading is limited on the topic of consciousness. Nevertheless, I have read various thoughts shared by couple sides to this debate, and I wonder if there is a major miscommunication happening between those two sides.
Sean Carroll, who is an emergentist when it comes to the mind, sees consciousness as another way of expressing reality at a particular level of analysis. In effect, he is in agreement with a lot of thinkers who lean towards a strictly materialist point of view. On the other hand, you have David Chalmers (famous for coining the phrase "the hard problem" when it comes to consciousness) and based on what little I've read from him, it does seem like some people (and as smart as they are) just don't seem to appreciate what the difficulty is exactly and seem to be focusing on some different aspect that David Chalmers and other thinkers like him aren't referring to when it comes to the hard problem.
As for the illusionist perspective, which isn't that different from the emergentist perspective really (I think), it's basically the same thing. There appears to be a lack of appreciation of what the problem is.
Sean Carroll, who is an emergentist when it comes to the mind, sees consciousness as another way of expressing reality at a particular level of analysis. In effect, he is in agreement with a lot of thinkers who lean towards a strictly materialist point of view. On the other hand, you have David Chalmers (famous for coining the phrase "the hard problem" when it comes to consciousness) and based on what little I've read from him, it does seem like some people (and as smart as they are) just don't seem to appreciate what the difficulty is exactly and seem to be focusing on some different aspect that David Chalmers and other thinkers like him aren't referring to when it comes to the hard problem.
As for the illusionist perspective, which isn't that different from the emergentist perspective really (I think), it's basically the same thing. There appears to be a lack of appreciation of what the problem is.
