they come up with different predictions of the experience you’re having
The way we figure out which one is “correct” is by comparing their predictions to what the subject says. In other words, one of those predictions is consistent with the subject’s brain’s output and this causes everbody to consider it as the “true” prediction.
There could be countless other conscious experiences in the head, but they are not grounded by the appropriate input and output (they don’t interact with the world in a reasonable way).
I think it only seems that consciousness is a natural kind and this is because there is one computation that interacts with the world in the appropriate way and manifests itself in it. The other computations are, in a sense, disconnected.
I don’t see why consciousness has to be objective other than this being our intuition (which is notorious for being wrong out of hunter-gatherer contexts). Searle’s wall is a strong argument that consciousness is as subjective as computation.
The way we figure out which one is “correct” is by comparing their predictions to what the subject says. In other words, one of those predictions is consistent with the subject’s brain’s output and this causes everbody to consider it as the “true” prediction.
There could be countless other conscious experiences in the head, but they are not grounded by the appropriate input and output (they don’t interact with the world in a reasonable way).
I think it only seems that consciousness is a natural kind and this is because there is one computation that interacts with the world in the appropriate way and manifests itself in it. The other computations are, in a sense, disconnected.
I don’t see why consciousness has to be objective other than this being our intuition (which is notorious for being wrong out of hunter-gatherer contexts). Searle’s wall is a strong argument that consciousness is as subjective as computation.