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Consciousness is fundamentally subjective, argues new conjecture

Rafael Harth has published an article on PhilPapers proposing the "conjecture of strong subjectivity" regarding consciousness. This conjecture posits that consciousness is fundamentally subjective and impossible to observe externally. Harth suggests treating this as a mathematical conjecture, something seemingly true based on all observations but not yet formally proven. He argues that many current theories of consciousness fail because they do not incorporate this core assumption, hindering satisfactory explanations. AI

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    The Conjecture of Strong Subjectivity

    <p><span>This is a linkpost to </span><a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/SCHFUT.pdf" rel="noreferrer"><span>a short article</span></a><span> that I published on PhilPapers. I hope to get some useful feedback here.</span><br /><br /><span>The article was borne out of the frus…