Comment by potamic
4 days ago
But is consciousness even a thing? Shouldn't the burden of proof be on the one making a claim that there exists something called consciousness? If they cannot show evidence that such a thing exists or may exist, then for all purposes it does not exist.
If you want to pretend you don't exist, that's your business. I think we both know you do.
That's not how science works. You have to devise an experiment that can independently validate the assertion.
I don’t need to prove it to anybody. I know it’s a thing, that’s good enough for me.
It's not good enough for science. How do you approach it so it can be independently verified?
That’s why it’s such a hard problem. We barely have the language to talk about it. We have no way to observe it in other people. We have no way to measure it. And we have no idea how these things could even be done in theory.
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