On Monday, May 27, 2019 at 3:28:11 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 2:06 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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 > > > Science is about making theories to model phenomena, whether that phenomena is gravity or consciousness. For the latter, there is like what I posted earlier:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/jXnhI88FISU/oP58r9LfAQAJ I don't think it is about questions. That is philosophy. @philipthrift -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/246e6120-b85a-44f6-b0b9-6c517c3aea03%40googlegroups.com.
