Illusionists, like Dennett and Frankish, argue that this datum is itself a product of cognitive architecture: consciousness only seems irreducible because our introspective systems misrepresent their own operations.3
Also...there is no reduction..in the sense in the sense of a theory that can predict qualia .. and predicting them as illusions isn’t much different. Lack of reduction is objective evidence of Irreducubility. Lack of ability to describe qualia is objective evidence of ineffability. So, irreducibility and ineffability aren’t just immediately given seemings
Just as the brain constructs a visual field without access to its underlying neuronal computations, so it constructs a sense of “inner presence” without access to the mechanisms generating that representation. Dennett[3] calls this the rejection of the “Cartesian Theater.”
The Cartesian theatre is supposed to be about having a single definitive version of the sensorium, as opposed to Dennet’s “multiple drafts”, and a homuncular observer...neither of which have much to do with “inner presence”.
The “hard problem” dissolves once we recognize that the inner glow is how self-modeling appears from the inside
Some generic “inner glow” is different to qualia, what the Hard Problem is about.
The demand for an inner witness (“something must be experiencing something”) leads inexorably to regress
Maybe, but an inner witness isn’t the same thing as, qualia, either.
Also...there is no reduction..in the sense in the sense of a theory that can predict qualia .. and predicting them as illusions isn’t much different. Lack of reduction is objective evidence of Irreducubility. Lack of ability to describe qualia is objective evidence of ineffability. So, irreducibility and ineffability aren’t just immediately given seemings
The Cartesian theatre is supposed to be about having a single definitive version of the sensorium, as opposed to Dennet’s “multiple drafts”, and a homuncular observer...neither of which have much to do with “inner presence”.
Some generic “inner glow” is different to qualia, what the Hard Problem is about.
Maybe, but an inner witness isn’t the same thing as, qualia, either.