I think there’s a pervasive error being made by both camps, although more especially Camp 2 (and I count myself in Camp 2). There is a frantic demand for and grasping after explanations, to the extent of counting the difficulty of the problem as evidence for this or that solution. “What else could it be [but my theory]?”
We are confronted with the three buttons labelled “Explain”, “Ignore”, and “Worship”. A lot of people keep on jabbing at the “Explain” button, but (in my view) none of the explanations get anywhere. Some press the “Ignore” button and proclaim it an inherently unsolvable problem. Some press “Worship” and declare consciousness to be the fundamental reality of the universe.
I recognise my inability to hit “Explain” and the futility of “Ignore” and “Worship”. I leave the buttons floating there. On the one hand, I have subjective experience, but on the other, nothing else we yet know about the world seems capable even in principle of providing an explanation. None that I have seen from either camp seems to me to even touch the problem. Nevertheless, I recognise that the problem is still there.
I think there’s a pervasive error being made by both camps, although more especially Camp 2 (and I count myself in Camp 2). There is a frantic demand for and grasping after explanations, to the extent of counting the difficulty of the problem as evidence for this or that solution. “What else could it be [but my theory]?”
We are confronted with the three buttons labelled “Explain”, “Ignore”, and “Worship”. A lot of people keep on jabbing at the “Explain” button, but (in my view) none of the explanations get anywhere. Some press the “Ignore” button and proclaim it an inherently unsolvable problem. Some press “Worship” and declare consciousness to be the fundamental reality of the universe.
I recognise my inability to hit “Explain” and the futility of “Ignore” and “Worship”. I leave the buttons floating there. On the one hand, I have subjective experience, but on the other, nothing else we yet know about the world seems capable even in principle of providing an explanation. None that I have seen from either camp seems to me to even touch the problem. Nevertheless, I recognise that the problem is still there.