Posted: Jan 14, 2017 7:49 pm
DavidMcC wrote:From your Wiki link, Pebble:I don't know about the "how", but the "why" is fairly simple: to simplify the huge mass of sensory data flooding into The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why we have qualia or phenomenal experiences—how sensations acquire characteristics, such as colors and tastes.[1]
the brain throughout the waking day.Without that simplification, the PFC (the decision-making part of the brain) would be overwhelmed by a vast array of meaningless signals.The existence of a "hard problem" is controversial and has been disputed by philosophers such as Daniel Dennett[4] and cognitive neuroscientists such as Stanislas Dehaene.[5] Clinical neurologist and skeptic Steven Novella has dismissed it as "the hard non-problem".[6]
I'm inclined to agree with Novella on that!
Agreed, but it is I think easier for people to agree with a narrative that explains the 'appearance' of duality, than to agree with an assertion that it is a non problem.