A thread on illusion vs identity. Illusionists believe that consciousness involves no properties that are not detectable and fully describable by third-person science. Any other properties we think are involved are illusory. /1
re: c) why is explaining phenomenal experience (thereby showing that it is not hard) from a physicalist perspective not the same as solving the hard problem? e) I suspect that a demon is a surplus self that thinks it is a demon, and it possesses a mind just like the regular self.
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Re c) The HP is set up as one that is both substantive and qualitatively different from the easy problems. Physicalists must deny that there's any such problem.
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As "hard" as a fictional demon, a fictional sock, or a fictional shoe? I have firsthand experience honestly expecting dreams to come true in a mental hospital in 2003, so "now" I prioritize the first law of thermometers over squaring negatives to experience opposite directions
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Accounting for 3D and third-person logic, given more points than zero: A point Will "both" Create and Destroy Itself B point Will "Neither" Create "Nor" Destroy A point The limit of +3 exclusive points excluding zero points = one square root of three additional points
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