--- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: (snip) > Now if we suppose this is what happens, and the 'rich inner > life' of experience goes by the wayside, what does this mean > in terms of the hard problem?
Nothing, because it doesn't "go by the wayside"--it can't, or you'd be a zombie. Your "rich inner life" may well become *poverty-stricken*, but it doesn't disappear. So the "hard problem" doesn't go away either. (snip) > If I understand [Dennett's] view, then it is impossible to > discover there is such a thing as consciousness objectively. > Subjectively, it is an illusion created by the mind's > interpretation of experience. For there to be an illusion, there has to be something being deceived by it, so you can't dispense with consciousness (or the hard problem) that way either.
