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I don’t think this matters scientifically. If they can probe it in a way that could falsify the theory then it is measurable (and hence...

For that you would have to look at the particulars of the derivation itself. Just like any other theory. Since this is a hypothetical...

Surveys, EEG, fMRI, whatever measurable results the model predicts. Just the same as with any other scientific theory. I am not...

The same way you validate any scientific model: by experiments.

Both. If the model derived the measurable mind/brain state from a model of the unmeasurable subjective experience, and if you had two...

Regardless of whether or not the entire conscious can be measured, it is only the measurable portion that needs to be predicted by a...

I mean that everything we know about how the brain functions can be fully explained with classical physics and biology. We simply don't...

That is true of all scientific theories. @Demystifier related this to the “hard” vs “easy” problems of consciousness. I would relate...

Let me be very clear then. This post is a strawman fallacy: I certainly never claimed that quantum effects do not exist in the brain...

Saying "you know what it looks like" isn't a definition, it's just pointing at the phenomenon. To me, that experience simply is the...

I don't see that as an explanation. Rather as an idiosyncratic, subjective point of view. In fact, if consciousness is subjective, then...

While that is true, the discussion with @Demystifier was not about subjective vs objective. That discussion was about quantitative vs...

Did I say that? In the very next sentence I explicitly said "in my opinion," which I would presume people can read to mean it's just my...

Yes. I agree with this as a statement about most current theories and measurements of thought. But not as a statement about thoughts...

Perhaps all I'm saying is that consciousness results from organic chemistry and we need nothing more. They wouldn't be a zombie, but a...