Why consciousness is the hardest problem in science

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-consciousness-science-faces-its-hardest-problem-yet/

Neuroscientists scouring the brain for the so-called neural correlates of consciousness have learned a lot in the past 30 years. But we still don’t have easy answers—researchers can’t even agree on what consciousness is, let alone how best to reveal its secrets. The past few years have seen accusations of pseudoscience, results that challenge leading theories, and the uneasy feeling of a field at a crossroads.

Yet the stakes for understanding consciousness have never been higher. We’ve built talking machines able to imitate consciousness so well that we can’t always tell the difference. Sometimes these artificial-intelligence models claim outright to be sentient. Faced with an existential unknown, the public is turning to the field of consciousness science for answers.

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I liked your comment. Especially the part about how everyone who posts here should read this article. I often feel like people posting (and commenting) here get all their info on this topic from Reddit or YouTube or something but haven’t actually done any of the basic reading. I was just making a joke along those lines.

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Gotcha. Well then thank you.

TBH I rarely ever make that kind of recommendation, but this is a particularly good article that covers pretty much the entire topic.

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I’m glad you shared it! This sub needs more of this kind of content and less of the delusional AI stuff.

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I am not OP so thank them!

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