Comment by AIorNot
General Questions for this theory:
Given the following
1. The ONLY way we can describe or define consciousness is through our own subjective experience of consciousness
- (ie you can talk about a watching a movie trailer like this one for hours but until you experience it you have not had a conscious experience of it - https://youtu.be/RrAz1YLh8nY?si=XcdTLwcChe7PI2Py)
Does this theory claim otherwise?
2. We can never really tell if anything else beside us is conscious (but we assume so)
How then does any emergent physical theory of consciousness actually explain what consciousness is?
It’s a fundamental metaphysical question
I assume as I have yet to finish this paper that it argues the conditions needed to create consciousness not the explanation of what exactly the phenomena is (first person experience as we assume happens within the Mind which seems to originate as a correlation of electrical activity in the brain) we can correlate the firing of a neuron with a thought but neural activity is not thought itself - what exactly is it?
I believe that consciousness has to be closed tied to our senses. I’ve always assumed that if you had none of the five senses (plus some of the other less talked about ones) you really wouldn’t be conscious. All thoughts are tied to some image or sound or sensory impact. A human who never had a single sensory input, due to let’s say a nerve damage or something, I don’t think it could ever actually have internal thoughts.