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83 questions in a row of:
what are your thoughts on consciousness?
do you agree with the notion that we have subjective experiences based on the qualia?
or do you think that qualia is a fundamental misunderstanding of complex material phenomena that we confuse for higher self?
do we simply not have the information or tools to understand ourselves and instead assign metaphysical properties to explain the difference?
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Sid Crimson
1. consciousness is the greatness mystery and question of a human being. it even had its own name when we tried to ask about consciousness itself! The Hard Problem of Consciousness by David Chalmer. by far, we dont know how it exists, why, we, the combination of a bunch quark that have no feelings and thought, could create something that could deeply thinking about everything? there are some perspectives talk about that, but it's still a question. lets just say, we dont truly know why consciousness exists. but we are striving to understand it — and that very effort is the most remarkable expression of consciousness itself.
2. yes i agree, thats the reason why i felt the color red, or the bitter of a coffee, or being pain by some chick that dump me in July rain. even tho we explain it by neuron, or brain waves, the experience is REAL, and its there, you just knew its YOU. and that makes us human, not a machine, we feel, by our own experience.
3. i believe that "Qualia" are real and cannot be fully reduced to physical phenomena, and i dont think its just a "mistake". Like i said, even tho we can explain the feelings itself of ourselves by many ways in science, we still dont know what the other feels. it real, although it hard to define, like beauty, ugly or exist. if qualia are an illusion, then that illusion is questioning itself, which means it still exists in some sense. you might call it a “misunderstanding,” but I call it the deepest layer of human experience.
4. honestly, i dont know, and i will never know truly myself, neither than others, know about themselves. because we will always be changing, thats how everything works. maybe, 100 years later we could answer some question about ourselves through science, but that will just open another question. overall, no clue, ut attributing metaphysical qualities to us is not entirely a mistake, it might be the only way humans can reflect on themselves at this point in time.
And to me, I love it when my girlfriend — or simply someone, can ask or talk with me questions like that. its what makes us truly human, not just donkeys wandering the desert of nihilism, nor brains burned out by the urge to show off through trivial things, nor obedient sheep of consumerism.