Dave, believe it or not, but every single decision you make, no matter how immediate and unscripted you think it is, is actually glaringly reactionary and predictable.
Determinism? That’s accepted by quite a few people. I think the consensus on Less Wrong is either determinism is true, or our universe just happens to have random events but they’re in no way necessary for consciousness.
Nothing could be further from the truth though, as the feeling of “consciousness” you speak of is a very simply explainable cognitive bias/illusion.
So, not only the existence of P-Zombies, but the idea that you personally are one. I’ve noticed I’ve had one. I don’t see how having qualia could possibly even influence my believe in having qualia, and yet I still somehow end up believing I have qualia. I mostly try not to think about it.
[S]tudies in cognitive science have shown that fMRI and other scanning techniques can predict a “spontaneous thought” a full 250 ms before it occurs to you.
250 ms before you remember it occurring to you. From what I understand, your body makes you think you arrived at a decision later. This way, you’re not constantly aware of how long your thoughts take to process.
In any case, this only relates to determinism, not P-Zombies.
250 ms before you remember it occurring to you. From what I understand, your body makes you think you arrived at a decision later. This way, you’re not constantly aware of how long your thoughts take to process.
Good point. When I heard this fact, I thought to myself, ’250 ms before you are aware you are aware of it.′ When someone makes a decision—in the fact I read, it appeared that the brain selecting something to buy a moment before a person thought they chose. But it stands to reason that a process of choosing would have several steps, at least one making the choice and another step ‘submitting’ the choice to conscious awareness a moment later. But perhaps this was addressed in the original articles.
Determinism? That’s accepted by quite a few people. I think the consensus on Less Wrong is either determinism is true, or our universe just happens to have random events but they’re in no way necessary for consciousness.
So, not only the existence of P-Zombies, but the idea that you personally are one. I’ve noticed I’ve had one. I don’t see how having qualia could possibly even influence my believe in having qualia, and yet I still somehow end up believing I have qualia. I mostly try not to think about it.
250 ms before you remember it occurring to you. From what I understand, your body makes you think you arrived at a decision later. This way, you’re not constantly aware of how long your thoughts take to process.
In any case, this only relates to determinism, not P-Zombies.
Good point. When I heard this fact, I thought to myself, ’250 ms before you are aware you are aware of it.′ When someone makes a decision—in the fact I read, it appeared that the brain selecting something to buy a moment before a person thought they chose. But it stands to reason that a process of choosing would have several steps, at least one making the choice and another step ‘submitting’ the choice to conscious awareness a moment later. But perhaps this was addressed in the original articles.