My own point of view is similar to that of Luke Melhausser’s opinion in section 4.1 of “2017 report on consciousness and moral patienthood.” Physicalism seems like it is true. But the global neural work space + attention schema, and other physicalist models of consciousness, just don’t feel like they explain enough of the phenomena, and seem so simple that were they true I’d expect consciousness to be pretty much everywhere. Like, what exactly is reflectivity? What counts as a reflective model for the purpose of generating a computation that outputs thoughts like “I have qualia”?
Though I suppose where I differ is that I’ve got philisophical issues with ascribing a computation to a physical process. It seems like you can ascribe many computations to e.g. a rock or a waterfall. And I don’t know a philosophical principle which doesn’t give you an insane answer and seems justified.
My own point of view is similar to that of Luke Melhausser’s opinion in section 4.1 of “2017 report on consciousness and moral patienthood.” Physicalism seems like it is true. But the global neural work space + attention schema, and other physicalist models of consciousness, just don’t feel like they explain enough of the phenomena, and seem so simple that were they true I’d expect consciousness to be pretty much everywhere. Like, what exactly is reflectivity? What counts as a reflective model for the purpose of generating a computation that outputs thoughts like “I have qualia”?
Though I suppose where I differ is that I’ve got philisophical issues with ascribing a computation to a physical process. It seems like you can ascribe many computations to e.g. a rock or a waterfall. And I don’t know a philosophical principle which doesn’t give you an insane answer and seems justified.