There is no indication for any reason that the workings of consciousness should obey any intuitions we may have about it.
The mind is an evolved system out to do stuff efficiently, not just a completely inscrutable object of philosophical analysis. It’s likelier that the parts like sensible cognition and qualia and the subjective feeling of consciousness are coupled and need each other to work than that they were somehow intrinsically disconnected and cognition could go on as usual without subjective consciousness using anything close to the same architecture. If that were the case, we’d have the additional questions of how consciousness evolved to be a part of the system to begin with and why hasn’t it evolved out of living biological humans.
I agree with you, though I personally wouldn’t classify this as purely an intuition since it is informed by reasoning which itself was gathered from scientific knowledge about the world. Chalmers doesn’t think that Joe could exist because it doesn’t seem right to him. You believe your statement because you know some scientific truths about how things in our world come to be (i.e. natural selection) and use this knowledge to reason about other things that exist in the world (consciousness), not merely because the assertion seems right to you.
The mind is an evolved system out to do stuff efficiently, not just a completely inscrutable object of philosophical analysis. It’s likelier that the parts like sensible cognition and qualia and the subjective feeling of consciousness are coupled and need each other to work than that they were somehow intrinsically disconnected and cognition could go on as usual without subjective consciousness using anything close to the same architecture. If that were the case, we’d have the additional questions of how consciousness evolved to be a part of the system to begin with and why hasn’t it evolved out of living biological humans.
I agree with you, though I personally wouldn’t classify this as purely an intuition since it is informed by reasoning which itself was gathered from scientific knowledge about the world. Chalmers doesn’t think that Joe could exist because it doesn’t seem right to him. You believe your statement because you know some scientific truths about how things in our world come to be (i.e. natural selection) and use this knowledge to reason about other things that exist in the world (consciousness), not merely because the assertion seems right to you.