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The moderately easy problem of consciousness

The problem of other minds means that the hard problem of consciousness will never fully be solved. Since you'll never know whether other people are really conscious, you'll never be able to get hard scientific evidence about why they're conscious.
— Noah Smith

2w ago

The mind does not work by starting from universal principles and deducing particular applications. It works the other way, by grasping the concrete particular and then working up to general ideas.

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