You can say what consciousness is not, but can you say what it is?
The fact that we can’t fully explain consciousness is a point in favour of the HP.
Of course, any statement of a problem has to state something about what it is … but something isn’t everything.
The burden of proof is on those who assert that the Hard Problem is real.
Yes, and they have arguments you haven’t addressed.
As it stands, no explanation of the Hard Problem is possible, because the Hard Problem has no criteria for what would comprise a satisfying explanation; no way to distinguish a correct explanation from an incorrect one.
I use the criterion of being able to make novel predictions. We clearly don’t have a solution that reaches that criterion.
The fact that we can’t fully explain consciousness is a point in favour of the HP.
But my question was, what exactly can’t we fully explain? What are you referring to when you say “consciousness” and what about it can’t we explain?
they have arguments you haven’t addressed.
Such as?
I use the criterion of being able to make novel predictions. We clearly don’t have a solution that reaches that criterion.
Agreed, but what exactly should it predict? General relativity made novel predictions when it was first formulated, but about the movement of planets and so forth, so I presume that doesn’t count as a solution to the Hard Problem of consciousness.
The fact that we can’t fully explain consciousness is a point in favour of the HP.
Of course, any statement of a problem has to state something about what it is … but something isn’t everything.
Yes, and they have arguments you haven’t addressed.
I use the criterion of being able to make novel predictions. We clearly don’t have a solution that reaches that criterion.
But my question was, what exactly can’t we fully explain? What are you referring to when you say “consciousness” and what about it can’t we explain?
Such as?
Agreed, but what exactly should it predict? General relativity made novel predictions when it was first formulated, but about the movement of planets and so forth, so I presume that doesn’t count as a solution to the Hard Problem of consciousness.
Hard problem stuff?