Comment Comment by woodruffw > All we have to do is figure out what arrangements do that.That’s the hard part!> It is literally the only thing we know — conscious experience. We just don’t know, yet, how to replicate it outside of biological reproduction.This conflates subjective experience as necessary (an uncontroversial observation) with actually understanding what subjective experience is.Or put another way: we all know what it’s like to breathe, but this doesn’t imply knowledge of the pulmonary system. parent woodruffw 2 years ago
That’s the hard part!
> It is literally the only thing we know — conscious experience. We just don’t know, yet, how to replicate it outside of biological reproduction.
This conflates subjective experience as necessary (an uncontroversial observation) with actually understanding what subjective experience is.
Or put another way: we all know what it’s like to breathe, but this doesn’t imply knowledge of the pulmonary system.