Qualia Debate: EEG-to-Text Decoding Inner Speech vs. the Unverifiable 'Your Red, My Red' Problem
turchin · x · 2026-10-13
A debate on phenomenal consciousness: one side cites neuroscience showing red triggers matching brain activity across people, arguing quale skepticism smuggles in dualism. @turchin counters that EEG-to-text systems decoding inner speech show p-consciousness is simply encoded—not metaphysically hidden—yet we still can't verify if others share the same quale.
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