[ExI] There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’

[Brent Allsop]

Yes Donals hoffman get's so much right, then goes off the rails.
Cheetan Prakash, his co-author is good too, I've met him in person.



On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM John Clark via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >>> >> David Chalmers wanted to know why the brain’s behavior is
> accompanied by experience at all, but it seems to me that if Charles Darwin
> was right then there can be only one answer to that question, because
> consciousness is the inevitable byproduct of intelligence. That's because
> Natural Selection can't directly detect consciousness any better than we
> can detect it in other people, and nothing can select for something that it
> can't see. But Natural Selection CAN see intelligent behavior.
> >>
> >> > We've probably had this discussion before,
> >
> > Yep.
>
> Not very long ago, I read:
> The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
> by Donald Hoffman
>
> It does a much better job IMHO of explaining qualia and the other
> sorts of things that have been discussed for years on end here than we
> have. I recommend it to anyone interested in the topic. Be warned
> though that the author does go off the rails a bit at the end, and
> REALLY goes off the rails when he does interviews on YouTube. So my
> recommendation applies only to about the first 80% of the book. After
> that... Thay're be Monstyrs.
>
> -Kelly
>
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