Eric Schwitzgebel
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first heard Jun 2011
last heard Jun 2011
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And furthermore, if it's sparse in the sense that you only have conscious experience of what you're attending to, and you don't have conscious experience outside of attention, then you're going to have a very different kind of
view of what the neural neural correlates of consciousness must be on what the metaphysic, what the metaphysical basis of consciousness might be, say the functional basis.
So, um, and I think that in our current epistemic state, we cannot tell which, whether consciousness is radically abundant or radically sparse or somewhere in between.
We're
going to, yeah.
And until we figure that out, at least to a first approximation, um,
There are going to be radically different views of the metaphysics of consciousness and the neural correlates of consciousness that are all still on the table.
Right.
So let me bring out the second issue a bit more carefully.
That's a good way of distinguishing and pulling those two things apart.
The sparseness or abundance, as it were, kind of
across the phylogenetic spectrum, and the sparseness or abundance within human beings.
So what I've found is that people tend to either have a sparse view or an abundant view about their own stream of experience and other people's stream of experience, and think that whoever has the other view is just clearly wrong or confused about words.
But it splits, in my experience interviewing people, it splits about 50-50.
And let me just tell you some cases that people go differently with on the sparse versus abundant thing.
One is the refrigerator hum in the background, right?
So you're sitting in the kitchen.
The refrigerator has been going, you know, who knows how long, 20 minutes.
And you're not paying any attention to the hum of the fridge.
You're, say, reading the newspaper, right?
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