What makes discussions with people who are convinced that there can be no rational explanation for consciousness so difficult is that they mostly won’t be prepared to argue the question via rational explanations
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In general, though, when I engage in these discussion it is to point out mistakes or to state what we don't actually know. I do not try to push a specific theory of consciousness, because I don't have one.
I do have several ideas of what consciousness is and how it works, but like everyone else's, they aren't backed by solid evidence, so I don't the point in trying to assert these ideas as the one true explanation.
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If you strongly believe you understand consciousness, to me, that's a clear sign that you understand it even less than I do (this statement not directed at the original poster, just a general fact).
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Get on a podcast already
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Is anyone really doing that (other than that guy who blocked me for questioning his confidence level about consciousness)? Ive seen a lot of posts recently on consciousness that make me wonder what secret email list you're all on b/c it feels like there's missing info on Twitter.
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Also, fchollet and Plinz are probably my two most favorite people on Twitter and I'm delighted to see you engage. :) As for consciousness, Wolfram's recent post really resonated with me. He can seem overconfident. Is everyone subtweeting about that?
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First of all, I respect your thinking and contributions very much! But I felt that your position in the cited tweet is irrationally strong; the claim that a ubiquitous natural phenomenon is fully unintelligible to all your contemporaries may be too bold?https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1388934862791319552?s=20 …
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“Fully unintelligible” is a big leap from what he said which is nobody yet fully understands consciousness. This does not imply that consciousness is impossible to understand, just that nobody yet fully understands it.
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I found it fascinating when you suggested that the brain might be similar to an antenna, "catching" consciousness via interfacing with a general consciousness singleton. I am not sure how we can make that idea compatible with current physics.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1319498410693586944?s=20 …
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I don't mean that such lines of thought should be ruled out. Turing already considers telepathy in his 1950 paper; if eg telepathy would be possible, perhaps we cannot know which of our mental contents originate in which substrate. The case does not seem very strong though.
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