Not having a solution doesn’t prevent from criticizing an hypothesis or theory on the subject. I don’t know what are the prime factors of 4567613486214 but I know that “5” is not a valid answer (numbers having 5 among their prime factors end up with 5 or 0) and that “blue” doesn’t have the shape of a valid answer. So saying p-zombism and epiphenomenalism aren’t valid answers to the “hard problem of consciousness” doesn’t require having a solution to it.
Quite true, but if you follow the link in Furcas’s last paragraph (which may not have been there when you wrote your comment) you will see Eliezer more or less explicitly claiming to have a solution.
There’s saying it and saying it. If you say that a particular solution is particularly bad, that kind of inmplies a better solution somewhere. If you wanted to say that all known solutions are bad, you would presumably say something about all known solutions.
Not having a solution doesn’t prevent from criticizing an hypothesis or theory on the subject. I don’t know what are the prime factors of 4567613486214 but I know that “5” is not a valid answer (numbers having 5 among their prime factors end up with 5 or 0) and that “blue” doesn’t have the shape of a valid answer. So saying p-zombism and epiphenomenalism aren’t valid answers to the “hard problem of consciousness” doesn’t require having a solution to it.
Quite true, but if you follow the link in Furcas’s last paragraph (which may not have been there when you wrote your comment) you will see Eliezer more or less explicitly claiming to have a solution.
Yeah, I edited my comment after reading kilobug’s.
There’s saying it and saying it. If you say that a particular solution is particularly bad, that kind of inmplies a better solution somewhere. If you wanted to say that all known solutions are bad, you would presumably say something about all known solutions.