no one has ever coherently explained to me why the hard problem of consciousness is actually a problem. not once. it's literally just begging the question and i'm sick of pretending otherwise.
@corsarenI gotta say, the hard problem of consciousness has got me believing in souls more. Which is…not something I would have expected 10 years ago.
the concept of qualia might have been deeply mysterious or seemingly intractable 300 years ago but we can literally see neuron connections and freeze intermediate layers in LLMs. there, that activation cluster is what it means to see "red". there u go.
if you ask "where the computation happens" in a python program and then say "no i don't mean where the transistors or electrons bump around, i mean the abstract mathematical computation *happens*, and why the transistors can cause me to calculate the nth digit of pi".... there's no real question . you're simply refusing to pay attention to the mapping between higher level abstract patterns and low level physical realities and hold them as distinct. the program execution *is* an abstract thing, it can happen on many substrates, it isn't strictly tied to a specific computer. still there is nothing "more" going on to be explained, no need to explain "how it's possible for a physical substrate to produce non physical abstract computation". these are just different informational views on the same system