Michael: “the problem of consciousness is inherently unsolvable.” ??
Not sure if you’ve been following along on this blob, but Eliezer has a while back quite thoroughly taken apart zombieism/property dualism/epiphenominalism.
The point is: “we really don’t understand it right now. But that doesn’t give us justification for thinking it’s beyond understanding. Further, although it seems completely nonobvious as to how this could be, there does seem to be plenty of reason to believe that it really is tied nontrivialy to physical processes, in a way that you couldn’t simply have a ‘zombie world’ that’s the same except for lack of consciousness.”
Michael: “the problem of consciousness is inherently unsolvable.” ??
Not sure if you’ve been following along on this blob, but Eliezer has a while back quite thoroughly taken apart zombieism/property dualism/epiphenominalism.
The point is: “we really don’t understand it right now. But that doesn’t give us justification for thinking it’s beyond understanding. Further, although it seems completely nonobvious as to how this could be, there does seem to be plenty of reason to believe that it really is tied nontrivialy to physical processes, in a way that you couldn’t simply have a ‘zombie world’ that’s the same except for lack of consciousness.”