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Not really. Your stance is something that people take when they don't understand the Hard Problem of consciousness.

They don't try to understand hard problem of consciousness and just try to strawman the whole thing down by tying it to mysticism.

Physicists like Penrose are not morons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

I seriously doubt Westworld writers were aware of the hard problem of consciousness.



>Your stance is something that people take when they don't understand the Hard Problem of consciousness.

Do you also think the 30% of philosophers who also have this stance simply don't understand it? The only one calling anyone a moron here is you, and I don't think anyone involved in this discussion actually is. It's a cheap trick to discredit an opinion you disagree with.


Maybe you should reread your first comment?

> Do you also think the 30% of philosophers who also have this stance simply don't understand it?

Almost none of those philosophers accuse proponents of the hard problem of consciousness with dabbling in mysticism.

> The only one calling anyone a moron here is you, and I don't think anyone involved in this discussion actually is. It's a cheap trick to discredit an opinion you disagree with.

You equated people that find consciousness hard with people being scared of the conclusions. You are essentially saying that those people are not intellectually strong as you.




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