The modern study of consciousness has all the hallmarks of a well-funded expedition that forgot to ask whether the terrain supports arrival.
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/19/wandering-elephants-in-the-desert-of-consciousness/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
The problem isn’t a lack of data or formalism. It’s a category error. Consciousness is not an object 'out there' to be discovered.

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