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by rhn_mk1
1066 days ago
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Atoms are just chemistry and physics! They don't get scared, they don't get happy, they don't get sad, they just run DNA! An arrangement of atoms does not have a consciousness that feels emotions. Sure, it can replicate, but that does not imply consciousness. |
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It is indeed a hard question. Like, I can accept the theory that chemical interactions produced organic compounds that over the course of a billion years happened to eventually become self-replicating and eventually basic single-celled life that over another billion years became multi-cellular life and eventually became the advanced life forms we see today.
But at its basis, it's still just chemical reactions. To an external observer, it's just chemical reactions. Yet, if you assume P-Zombies don't exist, then every individual human on Earth is conscious.
Or are they? If P-Zombies exist, then it's possible everyone is a P-Zombie and I'm the only conscious human. Unlikely, or is it?
It's a fascinating topic, but one that I don't think is possible to make any proofs about.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie