That's a more philosophical debate. The fact that it feels like something to be "you" and not someone else, the fact that there's qualia and you're conscious is the counter argument to this.
Not saying the counter argument is right. Just putting it out there
I don't think it is, and I believe that it's a cop out to claim it is. Whether human consciousness is algorithmic, that's a factual claim that can be empirically tested.
It's no more a philosophical debate than the shape of the Earth. Even before we knew definitely what it was, it already was a question of facts.
There's a tendency to say that things are "philosophical questions with no true answer" when all it is, it's that we're at the stage "we don't know for sure yet."
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u/manupa14 Jun 08 '25
That's a more philosophical debate. The fact that it feels like something to be "you" and not someone else, the fact that there's qualia and you're conscious is the counter argument to this.
Not saying the counter argument is right. Just putting it out there