Brain anatomy varies wildly from person to person. So does personality, intelligence. Even our sensorimotor modalities are different.
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E.g. the incredible variations in the distribution of cones and rods on the retina. Each individual has its own perception of color.
Given these facts, why should we assume that the experience of consciousness is the same for everyone? It seems almost obvious that it isn't
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because these "wild differences" are much less significant than the structural similarities...?
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In particular, the assumption "homo sapiens is conscious, non-homo sapiens animals are not" feels incredibly medieval.
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Yeah, but we don't know what is consciousness. The only method we can use to know if someone is conscious is conversation.
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this is what phenomenology tries to answer. Looks for agreement in independent subjective reports of conscious experience.
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can do indirect observations, like mapping topology of visual or auditory similarities. Do people experience a color wheel, etc.
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