TheHardProblem

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   by TheHardProblem 1mo ago

   Burden of Proof mainly. If I cut off my finger I’m still awake. If I cut off my head I’m gone forever. Presumably there is something going on in the head that isn’t happening in the finger (or the LLM). We can be a lot more precise than tha
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   by TheHardProblem 1mo ago

   Probably the most fascinating idea there is right now in the field. It might be right. My intuition is that it’s not right - that you can have experience without language, images, and other “sensory objects” but I wonder how useful it is. J
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   by TheHardProblem 1mo ago

   As somebody who understands the perceived limitations of the materialist take on consciousness in light of recent decades of seeming philosophical traction (Searle, Chalmers), I have to admit how many ways LLMs proved me wrong. Rather, how