you can then think about exactly how your brain turns a sentence about consciousness into meaning and it will exactly mirror the actual process your brain used to turn the sentence into the meaning you experience.
We don’t experience meanings. An organism without qualia could—without contradiction—grasp the meaning of a sentence.
We don’t experience meanings. An organism without qualia could—without contradiction—grasp the meaning of a sentence.
Ah, I did misunderstand you when I read the post. My point is that descriptions of neurons and neural interactions is the correct language to talk about conscious experience and qualia. Consider the following sentence instead: “When I see the color red, this is the neural result it has on my brain. When you see the color red, this is the neural result it has on your brain.” Depending on how similar our brains are we may be able to come to a consensus on which neural processes implement the qualia “red” and decide whether my “red” is also your “red”, while also allowing us to both understand how “red” is implemented in our own brains. I think we will probably need to understand our own conscious experience before being able to compare specific qualia.
We don’t experience meanings. An organism without qualia could—without contradiction—grasp the meaning of a sentence.
Ah, I did misunderstand you when I read the post. My point is that descriptions of neurons and neural interactions is the correct language to talk about conscious experience and qualia. Consider the following sentence instead: “When I see the color red, this is the neural result it has on my brain. When you see the color red, this is the neural result it has on your brain.” Depending on how similar our brains are we may be able to come to a consensus on which neural processes implement the qualia “red” and decide whether my “red” is also your “red”, while also allowing us to both understand how “red” is implemented in our own brains. I think we will probably need to understand our own conscious experience before being able to compare specific qualia.