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What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness? (hexbear.net)
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Personally I think it's silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience... Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.

I've been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism... Maybe I am just tripping idk

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[–] itsPina@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

but you can't really point to a way in which there's a specific physical property of neurons that enables consciousness, as you said.

There is no "enabling" consciousness. Consciousness is simply first person experience. The hum of the machine. It's all calculations all at once aimed toward homeostasis. We can pick away every sense you have until there is no consciousness left.

Consciousness seems to be agentic. A unified experience that the universe obviously doesn't have because we are subjectively experiencing it.

but you can't really point to a way in which there's a specific physical property of neurons that enables consciousness, as you said.

We can certainly point to specific physical properties that prevent consciousness from ever arising. If I snap froze your brain you would lose consciousness, if we snap unfroze you you would resume consciousness from the moment we unfroze you.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are all computational devices conscious? If not, why not?

[–] itsPina@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

I do think we will recreate consciousness by computer means, our current computers are not conscious as we currently define it as they do not really attempt to achieve homeostasis.