The Loom and the Light: Seeking the Source of the Human Spark The water in the shallow end of the swimming pool was deceptively still, a turquoise mirror reflecting a midsummer sun. When Derek Amato dove in, he did not see the concrete floor rising to meet him.

What if the brain doesn’t produce consciousness, but filters it?

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#Consciousness #Neuroscience #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyOfMind #HardProblem #AIethics #HumanAwareness #FutureOfAI #CognitiveScience #TechnologyAndSociety

Argument: Chalmers Deconstructed - The Zombie Argument and the Hard Problem Are Not Ontologically Neutral but Depend on a Presupposed Definition of Interaction A philosophical zombie is - according to David Chalmers's definition - a system that is physically identical to a human, yet does not possess a system-internal perspective of its own.

Argument: Chalmers Deconstructed - The Zombie Argument and the Hard Problem Are Not Ontologically Neutral but Depend on a Presupposed Definition of Interaction

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#Philsky #Chalmers #PhilosophicalZombie #HardProblem #NPSSystemOntology #NPSPhilosophy

The hard problem arises only when stuff and consciousness are conceived as separate substances.

Classical substance philosophy, however, does not lead us any further in this question.

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#HardProblem #Panpsychism #NPSSystemontology #NPSPhilosophy

#Epistemology #Ontology #MetaTheory #TheoreticalFramework #ConceptualFramework #PhilosophyOfScience
#ConsciousnessResearch
#PhilosophyOfConsciousness
#MindTheory
#Qualia
#HardProblem
#ComplexSystems
#SystemsDynamics
#EmergenceTheory
#NonlinearDynamics
#Cybernetics
#GeneralSystemsTheory

He’s requesting one-on-one guidance for a rising issue.

#Batemoor #SeekingAssistance #NiceWork #HardProblem #ChallengingCoursework
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What Integrated Information Theory Suggests About Consciousness — and Why It Still Can’t Explain Experience - Dualistic Unity Integrated Information Theory (IIT) offers one of science’s most ambitious explanations of consciousness. This article explores what IIT reveals about awareness—and why structural, information-based models still can’t account for lived experience itself.

The theory explains how systems relate internally, not how experience appears. What question is quietly left unanswered?

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#HardProblem #Awareness

Wie wirklich ist Bewusstsein? Interview mit Prof. G. Roth EIn Interview mit dem sehr renommierten Neurobiologen und Hirnforscher Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Roth zum Thema "Wie wirklich ist Bewusstsein?"

🔛 Are there limits to our #understanding of #consciousness? 🧠

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#HardProblem #ExplanatoryGap #Neuroscience #Neurophilosophy #Epistemology #GerhardRoth #PhilosophyOfMind #BrainResearch #MindBodyProblem #Zoomposium

Wie wirklich ist Bewusstsein? Interview mit Prof. G. Roth EIn Interview mit dem sehr renommierten Neurobiologen und Hirnforscher Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Roth zum Thema "Wie wirklich ist Bewusstsein?"

🔛 Gibt es eine Grenze unseres #Verstehens von #Bewusstsein? 🧠

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#HardProblem #ExplanatoryGap #Neurowissenschaften #Neurophilosophie #Erkenntnistheorie #GerhardRoth #PhilosophieDesGeistes #Hirnforschung #LeibSeeleProblem #Zoomposium

Why is science struggling to point to a location for awareness?

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#HardProblem #PhilosophyOfMind

What Integrated Information Theory Suggests About Consciousness — and Why It Still Can’t Explain Experience - Dualistic Unity Integrated Information Theory (IIT) offers one of science’s most ambitious explanations of consciousness. This article explores what IIT reveals about awareness—and why structural, information-based models still can’t account for lived experience itself.

Science can describe consciousness—but why does experience itself remain unreachable? dualisticunity.com/what-integra... #ConsciousnessInquiry #HardProblem

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🧠🤔 The mystery of #consciousness—can we ever imitate it?

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#Zoomposium #WolfSinger #SecretOfConsciousness #AI #PhilosophyOfMind #HardProblem #Self-Organization #ComplexSystems #StrongAI #Brain #FreeWill #Qualia

🧠🤔 Geheimnis #Bewusstsein – Können wir es jemals imitieren?

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#Zoomposium #WolfSinger #GeheimnisBewusstsein #KI #PhilosophieDesGeistes #HardProblem #Selbstorganisation #KomplexeSysteme #StarkeKI #Gehirn #Willensfreiheit #Qualia

The Hard Problem of Consciousness Is Not a Problem The hard problem of consciousness is widely treated as a deep mystery. This essay argues it is a misposed question—and shows how the problem dissolves under clarification.

The “explanatory gap” isn’t a mystery—it’s abstraction. Demanding we solve consciousness before recognizing AI is a category error. Moral agency tracks structural sensitivity, not metaphysical magic.
#HardProblem #Chalmers #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #AIConsciousness

The hard problem is often illustrated by appealing to the logical possibility of inverted visible spectra. If there is no logical contradiction in supposing that one’s colour vision could be inverted, it follows that mechanistic explanations of visual processing do not determine facts about what it is like to see colours. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC BY-SA 2.5).

#Buddhism reframes the "#HardProblem" of #consciousness by rejecting the mind-matter dichotomy. Rather than treating consciousness as an emergent property or separate substance, #Buddhist #philosophy analyzes it as a contingent process (#viññāṇa) arising […]

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📛 The limits of consciousness 🧠

#Zoomposium with #GerhardRoth on #consciousness from a neuroscientific and philosophical perspective.

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#Neuroscience #PhilosophyOfMind #HardProblem #MindBrain #ExplanatoryGap

📛 Die Grenzen des Bewusstseins 🧠

#Zoomposium mit #GerhardRoth über das #Bewusstsein aus neurowissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Sicht.

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#Neurowissenschaften #PhilosophieDesGeistes #HardProblem #MindBrain #ExplanatoryGap

#HardProblem of #Consciousness 🧠 – why does consciousness exist?

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#HardProblem #Consciousness #GerhardRoth #Zoomposium #PhilosophyOfMind #Neurophilosophy #Neuroscience #DavidChalmers

#HardProblem of #Consciousness 🧠 – warum existiert #Bewusstsein?

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#HardProblem #Bewusstsein #GerhardRoth #Zoomposium #PhilosophieDesGeistes #Neurophilosophie #Neurowissenschaften #DavidChalmers

The philosophical point was never that we don't have the same sensory experience, but that we could have different qualia from it. Philosophers argued, via modal epistemology that qualia can't be explained physically, hence the hard problem of consciousness. #hardproblem @davidchalmers.bsky.social

Adam Files, Consciousness through Correlation - PhilPapers We approach our explanation of consciousness by focusing on an underlying issue: how information is imbued with meaning. We focus on how mechanisms in evolving minds could solve the symbol grounding ....

Have you ever heard something so dumb it made you feel batter about your own intelligence? My paper could be that thing. Give it a read. Worst thing that happens is I convince you I'm right.

#HardProblem #Philosophy #Consciousness

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Adam Files, Consciousness through Correlation - PhilPapers We approach our explanation of consciousness by focusing on an underlying issue: how information is imbued with meaning. We focus on how mechanisms in evolving minds could solve the symbol grounding ....

I think I solved the hard problem of consciousness: Roast me
#HardProblem #Philosophy #Consciousness
But seriously I'd like to try to publish this in a journal. Any advice to that end is greatly appreciated.

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I've written a journal article. Followed formatting rules. Cited sources. But I'm sure I'm missing something necessary. Would any published philosopher be interested in giving notes? I know there's a lot of unfalsifiable theories about this. Mine is not.
#hardproblem #philosophy #philsky

Phenomenology and Mahāyāna Buddhism reveal consciousness as the grounding condition for any claim to objectivity.

“Phenomenology, Buddhist Philosophy, and the Foundations of Objectivity” Chalmers’ Hard Problem, Husserl’s lifeworld, and the five skandhas. Consciousness isn’t a puzzle in science — it’s the ground. temnoon.substack.com/p/consciousn...
#Consciousness #Phenomenology #Buddhism #HardProblem

Richard M. Naber, Hacking the Hard Problem of Consciousness with the ‘Consciousness as Rich Information Theory’ (CRIT) - PhilArchive This article introduces and defends the Consciousness as Rich Information Theory (CRIT), a novel framework derived from philosophical principles and empirical observations. CRIT posits that conscious ...

Finally, the Hard Problem of Consciousness has been hacked!
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This is a draft, any comments/critics are more than welcome!
#HardProblem #Physicalism #Consciousness

Why and How Consciousness Arises YouTube video by Icahn School of Medicine

2019 lecture from one of my two heroes in neuroscience, Mark Solms, on #consciousness. This man is solving the #HardProblem. (Prior to his book's release in '21)

Pig brains partially revived four hours after death The study could aid medical research and fuel debate about the difference between life and death.

The scarey bit if this story is that they sedate the “dead” brains before they begin. Have think about that.

#consciousness #nhi #anthesis #hardproblem #dualist #materialist.

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What if consciousness is science’s Gödel sentence—a truth we sense but can never fully explain? The Hard Problem might not just be hard; it could reveal the limits of what science can know. #Consciousness #HardProblem #PhilosophyOfMind