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They exist, they are just not needed to explain consciousness. In my opinion classical physics and biology is enough to explain the...

I find it hard to believe that my brain is the only place in the universe where quantum effects do not exist. For someone who believes...

Yes. That is true of every measurement of any measurand.

What would a human without consciousness be like? I would say that a large part of our intellectual, analytical and emotional identity...

Again, medical and psychological researchers observe other people's consciousness on a very regular basis. And they publish their...

Well, consciousness is not an object, not a thing, and not one brain state. But whether physicists really claim that remains unclear to...

All due respect to a professor of philosophy, but professors of medicine and professors of psychology routinely observe consciousness...

Maybe, a recent article by the philosopher Manfred Frank (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen), might be of...

We can do more than this. We can induce the subjective experience that we want to measure, and see how inducing that experience affects...

I don't see how I'm blurring the difference, I'm just using standard definitions. A single frozen state isn't a process, but the...

Thank you for the additional arguments and clarification! Yes, this is the way I meant it. Supervenience is not symmetric in general...

It that's true, isn't discussing the "subjective experience" more akin to debating philosophy or religion instead of science?

For me, treating "subjective experience" and "objective state" as two separate things is just a red herring. Every experience anyone has...

I think you are taking my AI analogy a bit too literally. When I say the brain is an incredibly complex computing machine, I am not...

I think we are just getting caught up on the word "state". When I say "physical brain state," I don't mean a frozen, static photograph...