On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 2:06 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:


> >> if I discovered a new stable particle that was so numerous that its
>> mass added up to 5 times the mass of all normal baryonic matter in the
>> universe then the Dark Matter question would be answered; and if it can be
>> proven that Einstein's Cosmological Constant exists and exerts a negative
>> pressure then the Dark Energy question will be answered. But what would
>> allow you to say the hard question of consciousness has been answered? I
>> have no idea because the question has not been stated clearly.
>>
>
> *> My main point is we don't know what gravity is either.*
>

But we know the general form an answer would take. We already have a theory
of gravity that successfully explains all observations involving it, if it
didn't produce ridiculous results at the singularity at the center of a
Black Hole as General Relativity does we could say the answer to the
question "What is gravity?" has been as successfully answered as its ever
going to be. But what general form must the answer to the hard problem of
consciousness take?

To put it another way, it will always be hard to find an answer if nobody
knows what the question is.

 John K Clark

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