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    because it's just religion in disguise. And God of the gaps. We don't know exactly how it works than it's some "soul" thingie. And also "we are not just cells and signals we are something more, something cool and sacred". Commented Mar 8, 2025 at 5:40
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    @keshlam - You use the term "qualia" -- one of the biggest murky metaphysical muddles in contemporary philosophy. Those non-existent "qualia" are used to conjure up an equally non-existent "problem of hard consciousness". What we should be thinking about (instead) is how the concepts of causality and information relate to each other. Commented Mar 8, 2025 at 20:13
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    @mudskipper: That's essentially the conclusion I was reaching. If qualia are defined specifically as not possible under physicalism, and have no other distinguishing characteristic that physicalism can't satisfy, qualia lose. Commented Mar 8, 2025 at 21:21
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    @Groovy The immediate apparent conclusion from this comment you wrote is that you are not conscious - that you are a philosophical zombie. Conscious people know what consciousness is, have no way to explain it, know there can't be a way to explain it, may use different words to describe it such as "soul", but are definitely aware that there is something unexplainable about their own existence, and infer that the same is probably true about other people. Commented Mar 10, 2025 at 16:48
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    @Broke The Law "Conscious people know what consciousness is" - oh, rly. Go and get your Nobel prize then. Suddenly you know what conscience is, the thing most advanced neuroscientist have no idea about. I like clowns. :) Commented Mar 11, 2025 at 5:29