The Hard Problem of Consciousness

This is a brief and accessible formulation of the so-called 'hard problem of consciousness,' recorded in New York City on 24 March 2018.

[ConnecttoSoul]

Thank you for your personal regular knowledge, motivation moreover tutoring to help support my exploration to becoming increasingly consciously understanding and spiritually connected.

[ZalexMusic]

"Ok now the meditation" right after BK just spiked everyone's heart rate 😂

[bpotter]

Wonderful ❤ the missing components in this wonderful interview is - the story - (in the beginning there was the word and the word created all, incl the so called consciousness)

This story, constant narrations, we call consciousness, that is being created by words through the five senses the Language Speech Center in the left hemisphere

The above is the glue that creates a so called Experience

this glue is invisible and that is why it is never noticed

It is simply the story the narrative by the narrator Center in the left hemisphere that is creating the so-called all encompassing experience and simply by neglecting overlooking the storytelling component in which everybody including scientists believe, thus they have created the hard problem of consciousness ... In actuality and in reality there is no problem at all

the imagenairy problem is that they the scientists are too much identified with the story they are too close upon it and therefore they cannot see it nor study it properly ever ...

[morphixnm]

It seems to me that saying we cannot deduce or correlate the specifics of our phenomenal experience from or to the physical parameters we use to describe things (or even compared to what they are) is not the same as saying there is no specific causal relationship. In the case of color, for example, an organism's optical system registers some range of the electromagnetic spectrum and delivers the ability to differentiate various points along that spectrum by means of colors. Red and blue and yellow, as we experience those wavelengths, do not need to be tied to specific frequencies in a deep way or as a matter of lawful physical necessity, they just need to be associated in some way deliverable as biologically and cognitively useful differentiations. Polka dots of different sizes could represent those various wavelengths, or perhaps sounds or flavors. Anyway, as you have said elsewhere, all we have beyond our thoughts is our perceptual experiences and making inferences about their causes, but I don't see how causally explaining perceptions as the extrinsic appearance of other entities intrinsic experience is more parsimonious then the phenomenal experience of color. In other words, would not our specific phenomenal perceptions of the extrinsic properties of mental entities pose the same problem? What would make them any "truer" or more direct or in any way less subjective?

[chewyjello]

I really can't conceive of a zombie universe that would be exactly like ours though. In my imagination, my zombie double wouldn't last very long. If she didn't feel hunger, what would motivate her to eat? If she didn't feel attachment to her children, what would motivate her to care for them? To me, conscious experience plays a huge role in the behavior of animals. If my zombie was cell for cell just like me, yet was not conscious...she still would not be the same as me. And as far as we know, it is not possible for every cell and atom in her brain to be the same as mine without the experiences that correlate with those brain states. I'm not saying the brain states cause the experience. But they certainly seem to correlate.

[sonpollo]

Can consciousness exist beyond the body?