shokwave comments on Human consciousness as a tractable scientific problem - Less Wrong

9 Post author: lukeprog 09 September 2011 06:39AM

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Comment author: shokwave 10 September 2011 01:55:47PM 0 points [-]

Not to be dismissive of a chunk of philosophy, but your post is akin to "I've tried to understand elan vital, but I keep running into problems integrating it with my biology course".

Comment author: lessdazed 10 September 2011 10:52:31PM 1 point [-]

Materialists should be able to answer "why do people think they have qualia" without it being a mystery.

Comment author: Jack 10 September 2011 02:39:24PM 1 point [-]

Even the most strident eliminative materialists understand what is meant by qualia. You don't have to integrate a concept into your theory to understand what it means.