Bridging the explanatory gap from the other side

![[thoughts/images/consciousness-midjourney.png]]“Bridging the explanatory gap from the other side” @midjourney An exploration into the [[thoughts/philosophy of science|philosophy of science]]. What is consciousness even?

“Bridging the explanatory gap from the other side” @midjourney An exploration into the philosophy of science . What is consciousness even? For many, it is the ability to be human. To feel the warm of sunlight on our skin, to see the redness of sunset, to taste the crunch of a sweet apple, to love and be loved. Distilled, it is the ability to have subjective human experience. Philosophers in particular define consciousness as experience . Something is conscious if there is an experience to be like that thing . But there is a deeper question that philosophers have been digging at for the past fe

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