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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Conversations about consciousness always wind me up because as soon as you ask them to define consciousness, nobody can come up with a measurable definition

[–] agamemnonymous 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The subjective experience. The sequence of qualia which represents our internal state.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But that doesn't mean anything if you can't measure it. It may as well not exist. How can you tell something is having a subjective experience? How can you tell if something is experiencing "qualia"? You can't.

[–] agamemnonymous 1 points 5 days ago

Well, I know that at least one subjective experience exists, mine. The inability to measure it is precisely why it's such a difficult topic.

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