(n≈2) Consciousness as experiential coherence. I have a subjective sense that my experience at any moment is a coherent whole, where each part is related or connectable to every other part. This integration of experience into a coherent whole is consciousness.
I’m not sure I understand this one.
In my current moment, I am sitting on a couch, writing a comment on LessWrong. Over on the floor, there is a pillow shaped like an otter, and I am thinking of going out to buy some food.
A lot of these experiences don’t really seem connectable. The otter doesn’t have anything to do with the food I am thinking of buying (though… it has a starfish-shaped pillow attached, because otters eat starfish—does that count as connecting?), and neither would have had much to do with LessWrong if not for this comment (does this comment count as connecting?). Nor do they have much to do with the couch. (… though the couch and the otter are made of a similar material, does that count as connecting? And the couch supports me in writing the LessWrong comment, does that count as connecting?)
Admittedly I have just written 4 different ways of connecting the supposedly-unconnected experiences, but these connections don’t really intuitively seem related to consciousness to me, so I wonder if you really mean something else with “experiential coherence”.
I’m not sure I understand this one.
In my current moment, I am sitting on a couch, writing a comment on LessWrong. Over on the floor, there is a pillow shaped like an otter, and I am thinking of going out to buy some food.
A lot of these experiences don’t really seem connectable. The otter doesn’t have anything to do with the food I am thinking of buying (though… it has a starfish-shaped pillow attached, because otters eat starfish—does that count as connecting?), and neither would have had much to do with LessWrong if not for this comment (does this comment count as connecting?). Nor do they have much to do with the couch. (… though the couch and the otter are made of a similar material, does that count as connecting? And the couch supports me in writing the LessWrong comment, does that count as connecting?)
Admittedly I have just written 4 different ways of connecting the supposedly-unconnected experiences, but these connections don’t really intuitively seem related to consciousness to me, so I wonder if you really mean something else with “experiential coherence”.