<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">If you wanna be a famous philosopher, all you have to do is make even infinitesimal progress along those lines. Because no one has yet.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>I loathe philosophy and would be upset if anyone considered me a philosopher. However, I am working on the “hard problem" and will probably write a book on it if no one else gets to it first. No spoilers, sorry!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 1, 2023, at 4:05 PM, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">"Systematically bridg[ing] between [material] physical and [immaterial] mental characteristics" is the literal expression of Chalmers' "Hard Problem" of consciousness.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you wanna be a famous philosopher, all you have to do is make even infinitesimal progress along those lines. Because no one has yet.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 1:34 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">it's a very odd sort of causation where the physical properties of the presumptive proximate cause have nothing to do with the characteristics of the caused phenomena.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>It would be better to say “seem to have nothing…” Not being aware of a connection does not imply that there isn’t a way to systematically bridge between physical and mental characteristics.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 1, 2023, at 1:26 PM, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Qualia certainly correlate to physical reality, but declaring causation there seems like a bit of a stretch - at least a begging of the question of materialism.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">it's a very odd sort of causation where the physical properties of the presumptive proximate cause have nothing to do with the characteristics of the caused phenomena.<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 1, 2023, 10:46 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
On 01/05/2023 17:05, Will Steinberg answered:<br class="">
> It means, I think, "the conformation of physical reality that produces <br class="">
> the red quale, on the layer of physical reality that is responsible <br class="">
> for qualia"<br class="">
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So, a brain?<br class="">
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A brain is 'Elemental Redness'??<br class="">
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I'm reading "conformation of physical reality" as meaning "arrangement <br class="">
of stuff", and "the layer of physical reality that is responsible for <br class="">
qualia" as "the organisational level of matter that gives rise to <br class="">
subjective experiences", i.e. (as far as we know) neural circuits, in a <br class="">
brain.<br class="">
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I see no reason to use the word 'elemental' for that. In fact it's <br class="">
wrong. This is far from elemental.<br class="">
<br class="">
If I'm on the wrong track (which seems likely), well, I did ask for <br class="">
"simple terms".<br class="">
<br class="">
Ben<br class="">
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