I feel like you get a bit distracted with predicting responses, but don’t devote the same amount of time to getting the initial arguments right.
Chalmers, in exploring the idea of “epiphenomenal” consciousness, in fact accepts that his zombie double would write papers about consciousness for the same causal reasons as himself, yet not be conscious. If we remember that words are human constructs, this is bad, since saying “conscious” would give no information to things that say “conscious”. If we would like words to be meaningful, consciousness, as defined by humans, is a thing that affects the universe.
I feel like you get a bit distracted with predicting responses, but don’t devote the same amount of time to getting the initial arguments right.
Chalmers, in exploring the idea of “epiphenomenal” consciousness, in fact accepts that his zombie double would write papers about consciousness for the same causal reasons as himself, yet not be conscious. If we remember that words are human constructs, this is bad, since saying “conscious” would give no information to things that say “conscious”. If we would like words to be meaningful, consciousness, as defined by humans, is a thing that affects the universe.