of being awake, as defined above: “I notice that I am taking audio-visual input from my environment and acting on it”. (The quote should be ‘noninferential, nondispositional and assertoric’ but I am not completely sure it is of that nature, if not, my mistake)
i.e. you know you’re awake when you have subjective experience of phenomenal consciousness. :-) Or something very close to this—that may not be the most nuanced, 100% correct way of stating it.
Would you say that only a functionalist can know whether they are awake, because only a functionalist knows what consciousness is? I presume not. But that means that it is possible to name and identify what consciousness is, and to say that I am awake and that I know it, in terms which do not presuppose functionalism. In this we have both the justification for the jargon terms “subjective experience” and “phenomenal consciousness”, and also the reason why the hard problem is a problem. If the existence of consciousness is not logically identical with the existence of a particular causal-functional system, then I can legitimately ask why the existence of that system leads to the existence of an accompanying conscious experience. And that “why” is the hard problem of consciousness.
of being awake, as defined above: “I notice that I am taking audio-visual input from my environment and acting on it”. (The quote should be ‘noninferential, nondispositional and assertoric’ but I am not completely sure it is of that nature, if not, my mistake)
i.e. you know you’re awake when you have subjective experience of phenomenal consciousness. :-) Or something very close to this—that may not be the most nuanced, 100% correct way of stating it.
Would you say that only a functionalist can know whether they are awake, because only a functionalist knows what consciousness is? I presume not. But that means that it is possible to name and identify what consciousness is, and to say that I am awake and that I know it, in terms which do not presuppose functionalism. In this we have both the justification for the jargon terms “subjective experience” and “phenomenal consciousness”, and also the reason why the hard problem is a problem. If the existence of consciousness is not logically identical with the existence of a particular causal-functional system, then I can legitimately ask why the existence of that system leads to the existence of an accompanying conscious experience. And that “why” is the hard problem of consciousness.
Thanks for your comment but I don’t understand it.