I have actually listened to that exact podcast! When I hear him, I feel like I agree with everything I understand, but there's a lot of things he says that I don't understand and he says those things with a degree of confidence that I find kind of baffling.
awesome! i kind of echo your sentiment. Do you feel his explanation that the reason we feel is because тАЬitтАЩs written into the storyтАЭ is simply too vague? answering the wrong question? not an answer? something else?
I guess it's a very general thing which is true of lots of explanations of consciousness (and lots of other things): When someone gives an explanation that you don't understand, it's hard to know if that's just because you haven't put in enough work to understand it, or because the explanation is lacking.
Like, if someone starts talking about the Dirac equation, I don't really understand it. But I still believe it is true because there's a clear program of what I'm supposed to learn in order to understand it, and lots of smart people seem to have followed that program and trust the conclusions.
have you listened to joscha bach? are you averse to podcasts? if no to both, would you consider listening to joscha on lex fridman and reporting back?
I have actually listened to that exact podcast! When I hear him, I feel like I agree with everything I understand, but there's a lot of things he says that I don't understand and he says those things with a degree of confidence that I find kind of baffling.
awesome! i kind of echo your sentiment. Do you feel his explanation that the reason we feel is because тАЬitтАЩs written into the storyтАЭ is simply too vague? answering the wrong question? not an answer? something else?
I guess it's a very general thing which is true of lots of explanations of consciousness (and lots of other things): When someone gives an explanation that you don't understand, it's hard to know if that's just because you haven't put in enough work to understand it, or because the explanation is lacking.
Like, if someone starts talking about the Dirac equation, I don't really understand it. But I still believe it is true because there's a clear program of what I'm supposed to learn in order to understand it, and lots of smart people seem to have followed that program and trust the conclusions.