No physicalist theory of consciousness can currently explain any specific conscious experience such as the taste of chocolate, smell of garlic, or taste of mint, despite three decades of intensive research by brilliant colleagues working on integrated information theory, global workspace theory, and orchestrated collapse of quantum states in microtubules.
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“we're interested in scientific theories that explain specific conscious experiences what experience can you give me humans can experience around a trillion different experiences so it's should be like shooting fish in a barrel there's a trillion experiences which ones have you done and the answer is zero [2:35]”
Created: 8/10/2026, 4:04:02 PM
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