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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I love late night conversations about this very thing. We're sentient meat trying to define what makes us different from the other meat. We argue the minutia, while we're all slowly rotting.
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or trying to start his car with whatever he finds there
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