Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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We're going to end your life functions, this copy, but there's another copy.
I mean, would that make you no longer afraid?
So in particular, you also see no meaningful distinction between this sort of uh transport scenario and someone building a wormhole that you can traverse in a spatio-temporally connected way, like walking through a portal that's actually connecting to space-time regions where there's no duplication, there's no elimination of any copy.
You see that as similar in all meaningful ways to the case of being actually copied and then the original destroyed.
What is your view on the hard problem?
But everyone knows what the hard problem is, is the hard problem of consciousness.
It's not merely the so called easy problem, which is not actually easy, but one can imagine in a way connected with modern science how we would solve it.
The easy problem of consciousness is how do we model a very complicated system like the human brain, uh, well enough that we can predict the kinds of things brains will do in detail when it's conscious, when it says it's conscious, right?
That that's that's
the of course that problem is well beyond our current ability right now, but one could imagine science uh reaching that point.
The hard problem is how do we get from that objective third-person picture of a system simply acting and behaving to having experiences, the subjective sensation of
Yeah.
uh the inner experience of being a conscious being?
How do we cross the so-called explanatory gap between what we can describe descriptively and get across the actual experience of these sorts of feelings?
And is that phenomenal conscious experience, that subjective first person experience, something that we can s reach or solve using the tools of science as we know it?
That's called the hard problem.
And I
guess there's there's well th there is a dispute in the community of people who work in philosophy of mind and beyond about whether the hard problem is really a a problem, whether it's distinct from the easy problem.
Um and so yeah.
I don't like when people tell me I I can't or shouldn't ask questions.
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