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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 May 2014 02:26:01AM 0 points [-]

The Hard Problem of Consciousness as popularly understood is that even if we understand all the mechanisms of thought to the point that we can construct brains ourselves, it won't explain the subjective experience we have. We can understand the universe with mathematical precision down to the last photon and it still wouldn't explain it. Seems like a non-empirical question to me.

The common meaning of "empirical" is something based on experience, so it seems that the Hard Problem of Consciousness fits that definition.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 22 May 2014 04:36:11AM *  -1 points [-]

No? There is no subjective experience I can have that can distinguish you from a P-zombie (under the (wrong) assumption that the hard-problem even makes sense and that there is a meaningful distinction to be made there)

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