I tried to address this sort of response in the original post. All of these more precise consciousness-related concepts share the commonality that they were developed using our perception of our own cognition and seeing evidence that related phenomena occur in other humans. So they are all brittle in the same way when trying to extrapolate and apply them to alien minds. I don’t think that qualia is on significantly firmer epistemic ground than consciousness is.
were developed using our perception of our own cognition and seeing evidence that related phenomena occur in other huma
By mean the same outward behaviour could be accompanied by different, inaccessible phenomenology. Maybe. But that doesn’t mean only humans,have consciousness. And note that we can’t access each others private phenomenology!
I tried to address this sort of response in the original post. All of these more precise consciousness-related concepts share the commonality that they were developed using our perception of our own cognition and seeing evidence that related phenomena occur in other humans. So they are all brittle in the same way when trying to extrapolate and apply them to alien minds. I don’t think that qualia is on significantly firmer epistemic ground than consciousness is.
By mean the same outward behaviour could be accompanied by different, inaccessible phenomenology. Maybe. But that doesn’t mean only humans,have consciousness. And note that we can’t access each others private phenomenology!