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Consciousness

Title text: Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot revolution.

Votey

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I don't think humans are really conscious. It's all just language use masquerading as meaning.

Suppose one scientist told you "pions are a type of meson that mediates the strong nuclear force between protons and neutrons."

What?

You feel like you've acquired information. And you could even transmit that information between two scientists with a rich sense of what the terms mean. But you personally are in fact just making noises without any sense of physical reality.

The truth is all human statements work like this because there

Is no final, basement-leve version of understanding available to you!

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Meaning may exist in this universe, but humans are only capable of reference.

No! My feelings are real! They're a real condition in reality!

Define "feelings," "real," and "condition."

Stop it!

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I can adjust your emotions like a knob just by playing music or telling jokes.

Shutup!

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