Thanks for the comment. I’m not 100% on the computers analogy. I think answering the hard problem of consciousness is significantly different compared to understanding how complex information processing systems like computers work. Any definition or framing of consciousness in terms of informational or computational theory may allow it to be studied in those terms in the same way that computers are can be understood by system based theoretical reasoning based on abstraction. However, I don’t think this is what it means to solve the hard problem of consciousness. It seems more like solving the problem with a definition rather than an explanation.
I wonder how much differing perspectives here are due to differing intuitions. But in any case, I hope this makes my thinking more clear.
Thanks for the comment. I’m not 100% on the computers analogy. I think answering the hard problem of consciousness is significantly different compared to understanding how complex information processing systems like computers work. Any definition or framing of consciousness in terms of informational or computational theory may allow it to be studied in those terms in the same way that computers are can be understood by system based theoretical reasoning based on abstraction. However, I don’t think this is what it means to solve the hard problem of consciousness. It seems more like solving the problem with a definition rather than an explanation.
I wonder how much differing perspectives here are due to differing intuitions. But in any case, I hope this makes my thinking more clear.