hegemonicon comments on Consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 08 January 2010 06:45:40PM 7 points [-]

If you can't even imagine what an answer would look like, you should doubt that you've successfully asked a question.

That's not supposed to be a conversation-stopper. It's just that the first step in the conversation should be to make the question clear.

Comment author: hegemonicon 09 January 2010 01:54:14AM *  1 point [-]

This is a useful heuristic, but if anything it seems to dissolve the initial question of "Where's the qualia?" As DanArmak and RobinZ channeling Dennet point out elsewhere in the thread, questions about qualia don't appear to be answerable.