On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 03:49:48PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Russell, > > The 'Hard Problem' is not how qualia come about. That is the subject of the > easy problems that have to do with the structure of the contents of > consciousness. > > The hard problem has to do with the fact of consciousness itself, that in > which qualia become conscious. >
One cannot have qualia without being conscious. Being conscious is the state of having qualia. You sound like you are confusing qualia with their neural correlates. > > But back to the original point, how does a 1p perspective move through a > totally static and fixed block universe? And when it moves isn't it moving > in time of some sort? Sounds contradictory to me. Seems to imply a time > flow for observers but not for the universe they observe. > > Edgar > Let me repeat. The block universe does not describe the subjective 1p viewpoint. There is simply no contradiction to be had. Either the block universe is simply a convenient picture of 3p reality (or more specifically 1p plural intersubjective reality, which I subscribe to), or it completely describes reality, in which case you have eliminated consciousness as a phenomena to be described (eliminativism). Whichever way you fall, there is still no contradiction. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
