TAG comments on [anonymous]’s sketchpad

TAG 15 Dec 2019 11:40 UTC
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It’s not intended to be a complete definition of consciousness, just a nudge away from behaviourism.

From my perspective, once you’ve explained the structure, dynamics, and the behavior, you’ve explained everything.

From my point of view, that’s missing the central point quite badly.

Chalmers argues in Chapter 3 of The Conscious Mind that zombies are logically possible

And elsewhere that they are metaphysically impossible.
- Matthew Barnett 15 Dec 2019 22:55 UTC
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  From my point of view, that’s missing the central point quite badly.
  Could you let me know why? What about consciousness is missed by a purely behavioral description of an object (keeping in mind that what I mean by behavior is very broad, and includes things like the behavior of electrical signals)?
  - TAG 16 Dec 2019 18:07 UTC
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    What is missed is the way it seems from the inside,as I pointed out originally. I don’t have to put my head into an FMRI to know that I am conscious.