Again, those are theories of consciousness, not definitions of consciousness.
I would agree that people who use consciousness to denote the computational process vs. the fundamental aspect generally have different theories of consciousness, but they’re also using the term to denote two different things.
But that doesn’t imply that they disagree about (all of) the meaning of the term “qualia”..since denotation (extension, reference)doesn’t exhaust meaning. The other thing is connotation, AKA intension, AKA sense.
Everyone can understand that the qualia are ,minimally, things like the-way-a-tomato-seems-to-you, so that’s agreement on sense , and the disagreement on whether the referent is “physical property”, “nonphysical property” , “information processing”, etc, arises from different theoretical stances.
(I think this is bc consciousness notably different from other phenomena—e.g., fiber decreasing risk of heart disease—where the phenomenon is relatively uncontroversial and only the theory about how the phenomenon is explained is up for debate.
That’s an odd use of “phenomenon”...the physical nature of a heart attack is uncontroversial, and the controversy is about the physical cause. Whereas with qualia, they are phenomenal properly speaking..they are appearences...and yet lack a prima facie interpretation in physical (or information theoretic) terms. Since qualia do present themselves immediately as phenomenal, then outright denial …feigning anaesthesia or zombiehood.. is a particular poor response to the problem. And the problem is different to “how does one physical event cause another one that is subsequent in time”...it’s more like “how or whether qualia, phenomenal consciousness supervenes synchronously on brain states”.
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With consciousness, there are a bunch of “problems” about which people debate whether they’re even real problems at all (e.g., binding problem, hard problem). Those kinds of disagreements are likely causally upstream of inconsistent terminology.)
If you don’t like the terminology, you can invent better terminology. Throughout this exchange , you have been talking in terms of “consciousness” , and I have been replying in terms of “qualia”, because “qualia” is a term that was invented to hone in on the problem, on the aspects of consciousness where it isn’t obviously just information processing. (I’m personally OK with using information theoretic explanations, such as global workplace theory, to address Easy Problem issues , such as Access Consciousness).
Theres a lot to be said for addressing terminological.issues, but it’s not an easy win for camp #1.
But that doesn’t imply that they disagree about (all of) the meaning of the term “qualia”..since denotation (extension, reference)doesn’t exhaust meaning. The other thing is connotation, AKA intension, AKA sense.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_reference
Everyone can understand that the qualia are ,minimally, things like the-way-a-tomato-seems-to-you, so that’s agreement on sense , and the disagreement on whether the referent is “physical property”, “nonphysical property” , “information processing”, etc, arises from different theoretical stances.
That’s an odd use of “phenomenon”...the physical nature of a heart attack is uncontroversial, and the controversy is about the physical cause. Whereas with qualia, they are phenomenal properly speaking..they are appearences...and yet lack a prima facie interpretation in physical (or information theoretic) terms. Since qualia do present themselves immediately as phenomenal, then outright denial …feigning anaesthesia or zombiehood.. is a particular poor response to the problem. And the problem is different to “how does one physical event cause another one that is subsequent in time”...it’s more like “how or whether qualia, phenomenal consciousness supervenes synchronously on brain states”. .
If you don’t like the terminology, you can invent better terminology. Throughout this exchange , you have been talking in terms of “consciousness” , and I have been replying in terms of “qualia”, because “qualia” is a term that was invented to hone in on the problem, on the aspects of consciousness where it isn’t obviously just information processing. (I’m personally OK with using information theoretic explanations, such as global workplace theory, to address Easy Problem issues , such as Access Consciousness).
Theres a lot to be said for addressing terminological.issues, but it’s not an easy win for camp #1.