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> I can't read minds. I know I have one and you know you have one. That's enough for both of us to know that mind is a real phenomenon.

So that's a religious argument, then. It's real because enough people believe that it is.

> How is that generated from a set of aggregates that has no subjective experience of any kind?

How can a pile of sand and rocks smushed together real close play back video? How can it produce a process that understands natural language?

> The simplest answer is that it is not

You keep saying "simple" when what I think you're actually saying is "easy." They are not equivalent things. In the same sense that I think the "hard" problem of consciousness should really be called the "complex" problem.

> Maybe you want to argue that salt "tastes" something when it is dissolved in water

At no point did I ever intend to argue any such thing. I suggest you put away the strawman and actually engage with what I'm saying.

parent thepasch 5 months ago

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