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by naasking
2259 days ago
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> > "is the qualitative experience of consciousness actually real, or is it reducible to third-party objective facts" > Why not both? Because those are mutually exclusive options. Either something is ontologically fundamental, or it's not. It can't be both. |
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The problem is probably the definition of "real".
I'm not arguing that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe when I say it is real. The jury is still out but that's not what interests me the most. When I say "real" I'm talking about my subjective experience. It is real in the sense that it is something that I know I experience, regardless of the mechanisms involved.
Ultimately, what I'm interested in is finding out how it arises. Explaining it. Reducing it to its "third-party objective facts" if possible. Being able to look at a machine that mimics us and tell if that machine is experiencing something comparable to what we experience.