The problem with consciousness is that it is wordsalad. You cannot talk about it without using wordsalad. Wich means: conscious (or uncouscious) phenomena are non-detectable aspects of a detectable electrochemical process.
What does 'to experience colors' mean? To reduce your explanation to the electro-chemical process, will not reveal us anything about the nature of 'to experience colors'.
A philosophical zombie will not be able to understand 'to experience' when it has not such qualia. The robot without consciousness, but with perfect mathskills and perfect scientific instruments will ony accept the explanation: electrochemical process x in the brain. It will call your 'feelings' or 'experience' or 'colors' wordsalad. It will call your feeling of pain wordsalad.
A dream for example. Try to discover a dream while you are investigating a brain. That's impossible. You will not be able to distract a dream logically by measuring a chemical process in the brain. You need to be that chemical process (we, human beings) to know that dreaming is an invisible part of a chemical reality. Images in our head are part of a electrochemical reality too. We know this wordsalad (images in the head or 'dreams') exists because we are that electrochemistry wich experience the existence of it. So, to be is to know. Not: to investigate is to know. Only to know when you are this system.
We can conclude that wordsalad is the only tool we have to communicate about consciousness (wich is wordsalad to the robot without the experience of consciousness but with superb scientific tools and mathematical computing capacity).
It's an objective boundery about what can be described in sc!entific terms or what can be discovered by only our most sophisticated robots, when they are philosophical zombies.
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What does 'to experience colors' mean? To reduce your explanation to the electro-chemical process, will not reveal us anything about the nature of 'to experience colors'.
A philosophical zombie will not be able to understand 'to experience' when it has not such qualia. The robot without consciousness, but with perfect mathskills and perfect scientific instruments will ony accept the explanation: electrochemical process x in the brain. It will call your 'feelings' or 'experience' or 'colors' wordsalad. It will call your feeling of pain wordsalad.
A dream for example. Try to discover a dream while you are investigating a brain. That's impossible. You will not be able to distract a dream logically by measuring a chemical process in the brain. You need to be that chemical process (we, human beings) to know that dreaming is an invisible part of a chemical reality. Images in our head are part of a electrochemical reality too. We know this wordsalad (images in the head or 'dreams') exists because we are that electrochemistry wich experience the existence of it. So, to be is to know. Not: to investigate is to know. Only to know when you are this system.
We can conclude that wordsalad is the only tool we have to communicate about consciousness (wich is wordsalad to the robot without the experience of consciousness but with superb scientific tools and mathematical computing capacity).
It's an objective boundery about what can be described in sc!entific terms or what can be discovered by only our most sophisticated robots, when they are philosophical zombies.
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