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by babblingfish 71 days ago
It's amazing how consciousness remains a mystery given all the scientific progress over the last 100 years
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Is it surprising? It seems likely you could build a complete working model of the universe with no provision for consciousness at all. As far as modern science goes, it's an intractable problem
It doesn't seem likely to me that in, just a couple hundred years, humans have developed such a thorough understand of every natural process as all that.
You can do it with no provision for molecules too.
That wouldn’t be complete though. I mean that an outside observer could view a simulation of the universe by your model, down to the subatomic particle level, and find no differences with the real world. There is no measurable “consciousness field” as far as we know, so how can our science even begin to approach the topic?
What do you mean by "wouldn’t be complete"? If no differences with the real world are found, then the model is complete.
Consciousness had millions of years headstart. Give it time.
We don't know that.

Consciousness might have actually started today at 7am and, before that, we were all automatons without subjective experience of the world, just going through the motions.

You might say that's impossible, because yesterday you were conscious and you know that, but you can't prove it to anyone.

Epistemologically, this is not a problem that can be solved with "give it time".