Re: Why All Current Scientific Theories Of Consciousness Fail
Posted: December 2nd, 2021, 11:45 am
SteveKlinko wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2021, 10:48 am When you nail Consciousness down to specific Conscious Experiences like Redness, the Standard A Tone, or the Salty Taste, the urge to think that these are a result of the action of Electric or Magnetic Fields evaporates. .[.. ]It is Incoherent because of the categorical difference between Fields and Conscious Experience.Last first: we use metaphor to compare things we know with newer things that we don't know, or understand. The idea of consciousness being based on - not just "being" - a field of some kind is compelling to me, if no-one else. Metaphor is unaffected by the differences in the things being compared. ... That doesn't make the metaphor accurate or correct, of course.
As for your first observation, consciousness is not easy to pin down, or even to understand. It is not obviously or simply related to fields, but then it is difficult to relate a work of artistic literature to letters and printing-presses too. Our understanding of consciousness is as you have described before: we have little or none. So, at this early point in our investigations, we speculate and wonder. Later, if our wonderings lead to anything substantive, we can start being more formal in our reasoning. But for now, guesswork is all we have.