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by Sohcahtoa82
1066 days ago
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This starts to enter philosophical question of where consciousness comes from [0] and if P-Zombies [1] exist. 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 |
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