lördag 12 augusti 2023

On attempts to resolve the consciousness problem

One has to remember, that any scientific attempt will be an attempt to model the mine. To find approximations that can replicate the observes behavior of the mind. This is again not how the mind works, and we should remember that one can find a model that extremely accurately replicates the mind, but still be completely wrong. Even on fundamentall logical matters. Take Newtonian mechanics as an example. It is a fantastic model of the mechanical reality. It was not possible to do any experiment that could invalidate it for hundreds of years. Yet still, it is merely a model that is not only wrong, it is even obviously wrong, even to Newton him self.

So, we should not expect science to explain consciousness. It can model it. But it will  ot attempt to capture the essence of being.

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