If we able to find the answer, it will provide as with exact knowledge of the nature of reality and solve all remaining questions about qualia and consciousness. The last will help to solve the problem of the nature of mind and personal identity and help with creation of AI and uploading. So, it will help us create safe AI and reach immortality. That is very practical goals.
The answer will also include a Theory of everything, which will provide us with complete understanding of physics.
So to have the answer is useful.
We also have some evidences for possible solution. In preambula to the map I listed 5 types of possible evidences. But non of them is definitive.
If we able to find the answer, it will provide as with exact knowledge of the nature of reality and solve all remaining questions about qualia and consciousness. The last will help to solve the problem of the nature of mind and personal identity and help with creation of AI and uploading. So, it will help us create safe AI and reach immortality. That is very practical goals.
The answer will also include a Theory of everything, which will provide us with complete understanding of physics.
So to have the answer is useful.
We also have some evidences for possible solution. In preambula to the map I listed 5 types of possible evidences. But non of them is definitive.