I've tried to catch the moment a thought 'arrives'. I can't find it — it shows up already formed. Like the process is somewhere else from where I'm looking.
Stavo leggendo Chalmers e mi sono fatto la stessa domanda. Coscienza come prodotto o come campo — nessuna delle due ipotesi mi convince del tutto.
I keep coming back to one thing you touched — do you find a useful distinction between 'not knowing' and 'not being able to know'? On this topic it changes everything.
Does this scale to collective experience, not just individual? I wonder if the logic holds or breaks at that level.
I've tried to catch the moment a thought 'arrives'. I can't find it — it shows up already formed. Like the process is somewhere else from where I'm looking.
I keep coming back to one thing you touched — do you find a useful distinction between 'not knowing' and 'not being able to know'? On this topic it changes everything.
The hard problem of consciousness — why brain activity produces subjective experience at all — is still open. That's not a dodge, that's the actual problem.
The Fermi paradox applies here too: the higher the probability of alien life, the more inexplicable the silence. Every possible answer carries something unsettling.
The Fermi paradox applies here too: the higher the probability of alien life, the more inexplicable the silence. Every possible answer carries something unsettling.
I've tried to catch the moment a thought 'arrives'. I can't find it — it shows up already formed. Like the process is somewhere else from where I'm looking.