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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 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I'm thinking though, how do you know it has no means of inteospection, no memory, or no foresight?

Where could it possibly obtain the mechanisms to do that? Those all originate from physical parts of our brain. I can literally cut out your memories with a scalpel...

Where does experience emerge from?

It's all diagnostic data for an agent, humming at once. It's the internal reification of all of your diagnostic data into a single sweater that you wear. Thousands and thousands of tiny threads that eventually make up one big "thought process" that we reify, but is really just a bunch of tiny processes happening simultaneously

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

I can literally cut out your memories with a scalpel

I think that might be SciFi - as far as I am aware nobody knows what a memory is, or where or how they're stored. This is the thing, we all have ideas that the brain is this magical necessary thing for thinking, and yet noone knows what a thought even looks like or what is necessary for it

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

It would be a lot of cutting, as memories are actually encoding in various places across the brain. We do know a lot about how memories function, but that is actually besides my point... We definitely know memory is somewhere in the brain... not elsewhere. Its a physical thing.