(January 22, 2022 at 10:58 pm)polymath257 Wrote: There is no 'switch to the first person'. The first person perspective is the one to whom it happens. So, if a creature with a brain detects the color red, that is what it *means* for that creature to 'see red' and that is the first person perspective for that creature.
There is no switch from your perspective, correct. We each observe everything in first-person perspective. But, if you were to imagine you could go beyond your first-person perspective, to get from third-person neurons firing to first-person perspectives requires a switch of some sort.
Ok, maybe that word "switch" is just causing confusion. But then I don't know what else to say. Can you at least see why Chalmers and co. see a hard problem, even though you don't agree there is one?
Quote:I don't see what needs to be explained: I have a first person experience because it is my rain that processes the information. it seems trivial to me.
In your view, first-person perspective is fundamental then?
