the sense data coming in through my skin and eyes and so on isn't just cascading around some neuron chains until it spits out muscle actuation, there's also something *experiencing* it
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That something is the bundle of neuron chains.
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gotta say that kinda sounds less like we're measuring things than convincing ourselves of things
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Might make more sense to treat it as the religious spook it is.
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Seriously, 'consciousness' discourse started because a bunch of theologians feared the implications of the emerging sciences. And descartes just squared the circle.
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Hot take: the drunk is right. His only chance of finding the keys in his current state is if they landed under the streetlight. Apply the analogy as you dare.
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in that case the drunk should definitely go back to the bar
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tbh the drunkard's search is a paradigm of epistemic rationality imo
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sad but true
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I dunno, I'm pretty confident consciousness is not just merely "ensnarable in a definition that brings it inside the rational and empirical", but ...
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...also when it is finally done the underlying principles and processes will turn out so trivial that one would be able to implement a "consciousness" in an excel 97 spreadsheet
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