Jan 1, 2026 09:00 PM
https://thedebrief.org/consciousness-may...just-code/
EXCERPT: The study, appearing in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, argues that, in biological systems, physical processes drive computation. In the brain, physics, energy use, and real-time changes shape computation. This view claims that consciousness arises from the physical material doing the computing, not just from running the correct code... (MORE - missing details) ..... PRESS RELEASE: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110849
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It's pretty obvious that the sci-tech community (as well as much of philosophy) these days is purely using "consciousness" to refer to what are actually attributes of intelligence: identification, understanding (cognition) and response or behavior capacities. What Chalmers called the easy problems. So there is no longer a hard problem of consciousness, due to current usage of the term "consciousness" either ignoring outright or giving little attention to phenomenal experiences or the presented content of sensations and thoughts. With "consciousness" being virtually obsolete with respect to the latter, one must now say "the problem of manifestations in materialism", otherwise the listeners will simply redirect or divert to issues of cognition and intelligence (that are easily amenable to procedural interactions revolving around a memory system.)
EXCERPT: The study, appearing in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, argues that, in biological systems, physical processes drive computation. In the brain, physics, energy use, and real-time changes shape computation. This view claims that consciousness arises from the physical material doing the computing, not just from running the correct code... (MORE - missing details) ..... PRESS RELEASE: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110849
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It's pretty obvious that the sci-tech community (as well as much of philosophy) these days is purely using "consciousness" to refer to what are actually attributes of intelligence: identification, understanding (cognition) and response or behavior capacities. What Chalmers called the easy problems. So there is no longer a hard problem of consciousness, due to current usage of the term "consciousness" either ignoring outright or giving little attention to phenomenal experiences or the presented content of sensations and thoughts. With "consciousness" being virtually obsolete with respect to the latter, one must now say "the problem of manifestations in materialism", otherwise the listeners will simply redirect or divert to issues of cognition and intelligence (that are easily amenable to procedural interactions revolving around a memory system.)