Consciousness is all-important: a reply to @robinhanson on signaling. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/11/consciousness_i.html …
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I specified *at the moment*. You can be wrong about whether you enjoy praying in general. You can't be wrong about whether you're enjoying it now, though you can lie about it or change the subject.
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Why do people sometimes react with apparent surprise, relief, and agreement to statements along the lines of "Search your feelings, you are not having fun right now"?
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Example: A: "Are you enjoying that icee, B?" B: "Sure, I like icees. That's why I bought it." A: "But don't you have a toothache right now?" B: "Oh, you're right! Now that I'm actually looking at my qualia, I was wrong to believe I was enjoying this experience. I'd better stop."
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Introspection is good! (like common sense) We only tend to notice when it fails, because otherwise it does a fantastic job. The burden of proof is not on Bryan's side.
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I agree! But the *universal* claim made seems obviously false, and possibly related to other times when Bryan seems to be taking an idealistic non-reductionist viewpoint on minds and brains. The human ability to get almost anything wrong is nigh unlimited.
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