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

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 20 January 2012 04:11:38PM 0 points [-]

Anti-reductionists are always quick to point at "qualia", "subjective experience", "consciousness" (or the subjective experience of pain, in this case) as examples of Great Big Unexplained Mysteries which have not been/can not be solved by science, but they can never quite explain what exactly the problem is, or what a solution would look like.

A solution would help dissolve our confusion about how the territory of our consciousness can be produced by the map that is our brain's computation.

I feel I've made some small progress on elements of that front after connecting some seperate ideas from other fields, like Tegmark IV, fractals and great attractors, and calculus. I hope to most some of these ideas later this month, or on February.