I think I have a pretty good theory of conscious experience, focused on the meta-problem—explaining why it is that we think consciousness is mysterious. Basically I think the sense of mysteriousness results from our brain considering ‘redness’(/etc) to be a primitive data type, which cannot be defined in terms of any other data. I’m not totally sure yet how to extend the theory to cover valence, but I think a promising way forward might be trying to reverse-engineer how our brain detects empathy/other-mind-detection at an algorithmic level, then extend that to cover a wider class of systems.
I think I have a pretty good theory of conscious experience, focused on the meta-problem—explaining why it is that we think consciousness is mysterious. Basically I think the sense of mysteriousness results from our brain considering ‘redness’(/etc) to be a primitive data type, which cannot be defined in terms of any other data. I’m not totally sure yet how to extend the theory to cover valence, but I think a promising way forward might be trying to reverse-engineer how our brain detects empathy/other-mind-detection at an algorithmic level, then extend that to cover a wider class of systems.
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Thanks, I’ll check it out! I agree that the meta-problem is a super promising way forward