Hard problem of consciousness:
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to me the hard problem of consciousness feels like newcomb's box problem; it seems really obvious/simple to me and the other people are doing some bizarre overthinking mental moves
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A pseudo-problem based on denying our own social psychology:
primalpoly.com/s/1999-conscio
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Those who say it’s not real should be required to explain how consciousness works. Good luck with that.
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Why? We can state broad facts about phenomena while leaving specific facts unexplained. I can reasonably debate whether it will rain tomorrow without fully understanding the physics of rain.
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I have a theory:
waxing moon = demonic Aella
waning moon = angelic Aella
I'm sure this will be dashed to pieces by the next poll.
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The question is evidently real: "How can objective stuff have a subjective aspect?"
The problem is that "how" questions do not have any definite answer in general; it counts as answered when the questioner feels satisfied, and what satisfies them is itself subjective.
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I think a lot of people are considering the hard problem in mechanistic terms, how brains process information and produce behavior -- but this is the easy problem. The hard problem is how a physicalist model of the universe can account for subjective experience at all.
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