The Hard Problem of Consciousness vs. the Real Problem with Anil Seth

Anil Seth describes the Hard Problem of consciousness and his pragmatic alternative, the Real Problem.

Dr. Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and the Editor in Chief of the Oxford Academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.

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Chapters
0:00: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
1:34: The Easy Problems
2:23: The Real Problem
4:00: Dissolving the Hard Problem?
6:07: The Meta-Problem
6:43: Modeling Hallucinations
7:51: The Predictive Brain

[terrydactyl]

As an idiot. This stuff cripples my mind with wanting to know how did we come about. Not in a spiritual way really. Like just the mechanisms of it all. Coz it’s weird to me to think we are made of matter than can experience at the same time it’s weird to think it didn’t really need or could have happened.

[Christian-xohu]

what an interesting discussion!
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this. Perfect recommendation.

[aaronsimpson]

although a 'hard problem' consciousness is mass produced on a hug, huge scale. It might be compared to a caveman coming across an iPhone factory, everything about the device is incomprehensible and yet there are millions of them and they are made out of nothing other than rocks and minerals he has seen piles of before put together in a way he can't comprehend, until he takes some courses in chemistry and computer science that is. He is capable of understanding but does not yet and to him the wonder and conceptual impossibility of it are baffling.

this is all just an ideas though, even though consciousness is produced on the scale of billions (in humans at least, the number gets larger with other animals) it still is odd and hard to pin down and still at least to us for now is a 'hard problem'

great video

[auntiethetical]

I think Chalmer’s question was why, more than how.

[johnstones]

Philosophers can't understand consciousness, so they call it "the hard problem" so that they don't look so stupid.