The Claude Delusion (opens in new tab)

If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It's just a really weird thing. An exhaustive physical description of a brain state doesn't obviously tell us anything about why that state would be associated with the experience of tasting strawberry rather than the experience of sneezing. What is it about that physical state that makes it feel some particular way, that the physical states of being a sodium ion or a national ec...