confession: i don't understand what anyone means by "consciousness," nor have i ever understood what the "hard problem of consciousness" is supposed to be twitter.com/IntoTheBlues/s
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Does the “something that it’s like to be x” framing move you?
In other words, there’s something that it’s like to be QC, but not something that it’s like (presumably) to be a bottle of mouthwash?
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how do you know there isn't something it's like to be a bottle of mouthwash 🤔
but okay so "consciousness" is that property that things X possess when it is meaningful to say that there is something it is like to be X?
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Right, although it’s not clear whether it’s a “property” or if there’s some other way of thinking about it.
Another tendentious example to probe the intuition: there is something that it’s like to be you without a foot but not something that it’s like to be you without a brain.
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I don’t! But that’s the hard problem!
If there were something that it was like to be a bottle of mouthwash, that would be consciousness, in the case of the bottle of mouthwash.
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I’d argue there is smth like to be mouth wash, ppl on psychedelics can have subjective experiences of being inanimate objects
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yes panpsychism is a solution to the hard problem of consciousness
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