RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 17, 2022 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2022 at 8:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Those would be evolutionary and mechanical questions - but the hard problem states that answering such questions....indeed...all such questions, still wouldn't be an explanation of consciousness. Making them no question or challenge at all, at least with respect to understanding qualia - since they're fundamentally irrelevant.
The safe bet is that a collection of abilities or functions of what we call a conscious mind is a better system of control than any number of other control models we find in the natural world (and in our machines). The how appears to be an issue of information processing - that's super vague..but, hey, we're just starting to figure it out.
There are people who think that answering such questions about consciousness would be the same as answering them about any other thing. Why must there be a toaster and how does it toast, for example, is an explanation of toasters. So, that's a challenge, sure, but only because those kinds of people think that the answers to those questions have any relationship to explaining toasters.
The safe bet is that a collection of abilities or functions of what we call a conscious mind is a better system of control than any number of other control models we find in the natural world (and in our machines). The how appears to be an issue of information processing - that's super vague..but, hey, we're just starting to figure it out.
There are people who think that answering such questions about consciousness would be the same as answering them about any other thing. Why must there be a toaster and how does it toast, for example, is an explanation of toasters. So, that's a challenge, sure, but only because those kinds of people think that the answers to those questions have any relationship to explaining toasters.
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