In the sense that it is intellectually disturbing
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Why?
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If you ask yourself why something exists at all, does that not totally blow your mind? It is a much more miraculous riddle than consciousness.
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I consider them almost the same question from our current vantage.
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No, consciousness is just the self report of a model of the contents of the attentional system. Once you see how that particular dream is being generated it is no longer mysterious.
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Your sensation of seeing red is itself an illusion, and you don’t really have that experience of redness?
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Consciousness is real to the self, but the self is not real.
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That’s not really an answer. Do you have experiences or not? Chalmers and Descartes are right. I can doubt any account of what my experiences indicate, but not that I’m having them. I’ll watch your lecture though.
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The problem is not with the experience, but with "you". What you experience is not yourself in a physical world. It's a simulated self in a simulated world (tuned to predict sensory patterns), and the simulated self models what it would be like to experience.
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Makes me wonder the nature of the substrate that manifests the simulated self as qualia. Why are the relations of perception/cognition instantiated in _some_ particular, arbitrary way, when the generic relations are all that matter for function.
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There are not that many degrees of freedom in how the relations between features can be modeled, if you want to map all (perceived) physical things into regions within the same 3space, all somatic sensations to the same self, and you want metaphysics to be consistent.
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I’ll ponder this and watch your new lecture (enjoyed the last one I saw :). That said, I suppose we’d want a metaphysical _theory_ to be consistent, but it seems unwarranted to me that some kind of extra-physical substrate would be bound by consistency in a way familiar to us.
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