• @Generic_Idiot@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    No one has any idea of whether consciousness is emergent or not. It’s unfalsifiable. Emergent consciousness is just speculation.

    When consciousness observes reality, reality will change its behaviour, or seems to, and that would suggest that maybe reality is emergent from consciousness. But again, unfalsifiable, cannot be proven nor disproven.

    Point is, no one anywhere has a solid grasp on what consciousness is. That’s why it’s called “the hard problem of consciousness”

    Whichever way you look at it both are equally absurd.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun
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      421 days ago

      In order for that debate to even take place, it has to be proven that “consciousness” exists on some special level.

      There’s no proof that there is some special sauce that is “consciousness” beyond just synapses, hormones and chemicals.

      In other words, It’s very likely that consciousness falls under the category of “if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…”

      My answers aren’t dictated by an awareness of self; they’re dictated by a chemical hormonal soup that we pretend is some grand concept of self-awareness.