When I introspect, I don’t perceive anything to be going on inside my head besides the computation
Yet billions of people throughout history have introspected without noticing any computation! Are you quite sure that your introspection isn’t influenced by your theoretical commitments?
In any case, the HP is supposed to exist in relation to physics...it’s not supposed to be discoverable by pure introspection.
so long as a computation is occurring (and empirically computations generally do occur in human heads), there couldn’t not be an “inside”.
If the view from the inside is an ineffable, intrinsically subjective feeling , then there is no physical reason it should exist. The idea that physics is a complete map of reality implies that everything can be understood from an objective, mathematical perspective.
it also wouldn’t make sense for a given computation to feel a different way. Can happiness feel like sadness?
Yet billions of people throughout history have introspected without noticing any computation! Are you quite sure that your introspection isn’t influenced by your theoretical commitments?
In any case, the HP is supposed to exist in relation to physics...it’s not supposed to be discoverable by pure introspection.
If the view from the inside is an ineffable, intrinsically subjective feeling , then there is no physical reason it should exist. The idea that physics is a complete map of reality implies that everything can be understood from an objective, mathematical perspective.
Can my green be your red?
Irresistable pedantry:
It can’t, incidentally, but that is due to peculiarities of human color vision, and is not of any deep philosophical interest.