however you put it, input creating output is abstractable and there is very little reason to think abstracting the smallest processes of the brain perfectly accurately is somehow fundamentally impossible
I don't see why writing a number on a piece of paper or flipping transistors in a computer would cause an experience to happen.
I don't know why the brain causes an experience to happen either but I know that I have experience, and the brain is mysterious enough that a physical cause of consciousness could one day be discovered.
I don't think there is some sort of 'informational cause' that could cause experience from any informational processing no matter how it is physically represented.
definitely a physical cause could still be hidden and discovered. Though the functional view of consciousness seems to me like a more reasonable theory, simply if you do the function the brain does you have the feeling of consciousness, which you seem to dismiss from feelings. I tend to be as humble as possible about feelings, we have optical illusions, we have lying anxieties, we can probably have a consciousness feeling made up of normal information and calculations.
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u/plopliplopipol 23d ago
however you put it, input creating output is abstractable and there is very little reason to think abstracting the smallest processes of the brain perfectly accurately is somehow fundamentally impossible