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To measure something means to use an empirical knowledge to associate a number (*) with it. In other words, science based on measurement...

Until we can experimentally measure those concepts (intelligence, consciousness, thoughts, and emotions) then indeed science...

I don't even know if anybody besides me actually perceives to be conscious, in the same sense I perceive to be conscious, or perceives...

I think robots can already do that, but that's not at all what is meant by phenomenal consciousness. At best, this could be some form of...

Creating artificial consciousness is one thing, explaining it is another. Humans have been building houses before knowing the Newton...

An excellent comment!

It depends on what you mean by "magic". If by "magic" you mean something that can't be explained by the things we already know, then...

The hard problem of consciousness arises from physicalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism , the view that physics should, in...

Basically, no one knows. This is sometimes called "the hard problem of consciousness". It's fairly easy to understand how the neurons...

Let me further develop my analogy with junk emails and explain what would be the analogies of various interpretations of QM. This may be...

In case anyone is interested: The FR paradox analyzed with the consistent histories formalism. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10095

I have to say I've never been a big "fan" of the Frauchiger-Renner no-go theorem because of these kinds of issues. I find local...

Same with me. :smile: Thanks! :smile: That's my way of thinking, in terms of analogies. That's probably the reason why I prefer the...

Thanks, that's a very interesting paper, but I disagree with its conclusions. Basically, the authors of the paper require precise rules...

Well, there are many versions of Copenhagen. Perhaps you have in mind some version where the collapse is objective and caused by...