Feb 27
"how do you deal with the hard problem of consciousness" well it doesnt exist so jot that down.
seriously, i simply cant not reject the assertion that it is a "hard problem" because thats stupid as fuck. I think a lot of laypeople entertain it because they dont know what is meant by Hard Problem. "consciousness isnt physical because it isn't. dont even try to argue because i just said its not possible to argue"
#its just popular because it launders rationality into the spiritualist beliefs about souls which have been inherited by the culture#which was a useful memetic innovation for the time period#another “engineers have been banned from philosophy conferences” moment#but really imm not going to be made to take seriously the idea that qualia is irreducible and that consciousness is necessarily inexplicabl#“i reject the premise of this argument on multiple levels” and “define your terms explicitly” < my response to#a lot of popular philosophical quandaries and suppositions.#a lot of these quandaries come from acting like linguistic-cultural constructions are actually Real and Concrete#the ship of thesis is easy to solve if you accept that a ship isnt Real. its a construct of language and cognition. so the answer is simply#“whatever either you or the gestalt decide is correct#is correct#unless the idea is counterproductive”
