electric_ember t1_jdlvilo wrote on March 25, 2023 at 10:53 AM

Reply to comment by GodzlIIa in What happens if it turns out that being human is not that difficult to duplicate in a machine? What if we're just ... well ... copyable? by RamaSchneider

Your conscious experience is very different from the conscious experience of someone who is blind and deaf

GodzlIIa t1_jdlwpw7 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 11:09 AM

My experiences may differ but my consciousness is the same. We are both humans after all, if I had been born without eyes and everything else the same, I would be a much different person, but the same consciousness.

OriginalCompetitive t1_jdmale5 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 1:31 PM

There’s really no way to know, though. When a great painter is “in the zone,” they might well be experiencing a mode of consciousness that is unavailable to others. Not just a different experience, but perhaps a completely different way of existing. But they would never know, because to them it’s normal and they assume everyone else feels the same.

A smaller example might be self-talk. Most people apparently have a voice in their head. But some do not. I don’t, actually, and don’t understand how people who do can live a normal life that way.