[ExI] My theory of consciousness

[Mike Dougherty]

>
>
> * >>> Consciousness is the inside of a difference that guides a process
>>>> from within. *
>>>
>>>
>>> *>> Consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed
>>> intelligently.  *
>>>
>>
>> *> The way a process feels when it is informed by information.*
>>
>
> *That is circular. You are trying to explain consciousness but by using
> the word "informed" you are already assuming the existence of a conscious
> entity. **By contrast I am saying it's a brute fact that consciousness is
> the way that data feels when it is being processed intelligently, and that
> is NOT circular.  *
>

ffs, "feels" is the silly colloquial word here.  By taking your
oft-repeated soundbite and substituting information-processing language you
reacted against your own point in another's words.  At this point I will
contribute: "hotdog is the way data feels when a dog is hot" because it is
similarly meaningful as the sentence that inspired it.  I wasn't going to
say anything, but then you had to state it again - as if that exact pattern
of bytes is the definitive answer.  We don't need to work on this anymore,
JKC has solved it with the exact string needed.  Nothing to do now but
print the bumper stickers.

>
> *>>> We provide an empirical research program with explicit falsification
>>>> criteria. *
>>>
>>>
>>> *>> Tell me more about that! *
>>>
>>
>> *> See section 11.4 of the paper linked from the zenodo URL for details
>> on a series of empirical tests that could falsify the theory.*
>>
>
> *I am unable to access **that part, perhaps I could if I kept on trying
> but I don't think it would be worth the effort because **whatever you are
> suggesting I am quite certain it must be incorrect. Post the relevant parts
> here and prove me wrong. If it's really as good as you claim then you will
> have made the largest philosophical advance in a 1000 years, if not 10,000
> years. *
>

But John, what if it IS a link to "*Consciousness is the way data feels
when it is being processed intelligently"?  *I am as-certain that statement
is not-even wrong; it's meaningless.
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