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ChristianKl comments on Can science come to understand consciousness? A problem of philosophical zombies (Yes, I know, P-zombies again.) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 17 November 2014 05:29:29PM 1 point [-]

Phenomenological investigation allows us to break something like consciousness down.

We for example think that perceiving the qualia of red and blue are each something that consciousness is about. We can add a third color base color via gene therapy and model ask people do describe how their conscious experience of colors changes.

Just because investigating it might need conceptual advances doesn't mean that those can't be made.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 18 November 2014 03:53:02PM 0 points [-]

Describing novel qualia is famous difficult.

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 November 2014 05:57:44PM *  0 points [-]

Difficult is not the same thing as impossible. Doing advanced math is also difficult.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 18 November 2014 06:51:45PM *  0 points [-]

I was thinking of writing "difficult going on impossible" . No one can do it reliably at all, strictly speaking.

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 November 2014 10:02:21PM 0 points [-]

I don't think that's the case. I do think there are people who do get something out of phenomenological investigation.