I actually do think some people register these being incompressible as a problem. Think of “what breathes fire into the equations
If the equations are something like string theory or the standard model, they are pretty complex, and there is a legitimate concern why you can compress things so far but not further.
firstly, accepting a naïve physicalism, we can try to give an account of why people would report being confused about consciousness, which could in principle be cashed out in purely physical predictions about what words they speak or symbols they type into computers
But there is no reason for the maximally naive person to be confused about qualia, because the maximally naive person doesn’t know what they are, or what physics is or what reductionism is. The maximally naive approach is that I am looking at a red chair, and I see it exactly as it is, and the redness is a property of the chair ,not a proxy representation generated in my brain.
I think people with a variety of metaphysical views could come to agree on an explanation of this “meta-problem” without coming to agree on the object level.
Sure. A physicalist could say that the the hard problem is the problem of explaining qualia on physical terms ,at the meta level, and the obvious object level solution is to ditch qualia.
Whereas an idealistist could agree that the the hard problem is the problem of explaining qualia on physical terms ,at the meta level, but say that the obvious object level solution is to ditch physicalism.
I would rather say that reality, from the perspective of beings like us, is necessarily a bit indexical—that is, one always approaches reality from a particular perspective.
Physicalism admits perspectives, but not irreducible ones. Under relativity, things will seem different to different observers, but in a way that is predictable to any observer. Albert can predict someone else’s observations of mass, length and time....but can Mary predict someone else’s colour qualia?
If the equations are something like string theory or the standard model, they are pretty complex, and there is a legitimate concern why you can compress things so far but not further.
But there is no reason for the maximally naive person to be confused about qualia, because the maximally naive person doesn’t know what they are, or what physics is or what reductionism is. The maximally naive approach is that I am looking at a red chair, and I see it exactly as it is, and the redness is a property of the chair ,not a proxy representation generated in my brain.
Sure. A physicalist could say that the the hard problem is the problem of explaining qualia on physical terms ,at the meta level, and the obvious object level solution is to ditch qualia.
Whereas an idealistist could agree that the the hard problem is the problem of explaining qualia on physical terms ,at the meta level, but say that the obvious object level solution is to ditch physicalism.
Physicalism admits perspectives, but not irreducible ones. Under relativity, things will seem different to different observers, but in a way that is predictable to any observer. Albert can predict someone else’s observations of mass, length and time....but can Mary predict someone else’s colour qualia?