Skepticism of Other Minds
Some would say to justify a belief in other minds one would need to have the ability to view the subjective experience of another person. But I argue that you can’t prove that other consciousness exist, because you can’t see them. And even if in the future we were able to see another person’s subjective experience, we wouldn’t be able to tell that that being was originally conscious to begin with; you would only have the idea that there is a possibility it exists. Many philosophers argue that because we observe people acting and behaving in ways that we do, that they must have a consciousness. But if that was the way to perceive consciousness wouldn’t Artificial Intelligence be said to have a consciousness under that definition?
Conscious awareness is an idea or concept that we believe to know we have but have never been able to prove it true. It is …show more content…
It would make sense that consciousness is a singular entity that we all can agree exists. But in a scenario where one experiences self by definition, one must experience other. Which also by definition means a mind outside the realm of the self’s observability which means that other minds don’t exist because we’re all one. And the experience of self and other is a consequence of the human brain. Jean – Paul Sartre writes, that an individual person or being-for-itself, can become cognizant of his own existence only when he sees himself being perceived by another being-for-itself. That is we can formulate a conscious state of being and an identity only when we are confronted by others who are also possessed of that consciousness and we apprehend ourselves in relation to them. But if this were true wouldn’t we have to prove that other people around us are conscious first? How can someone who we don’t believe to have conscious be the only way for us to achieve
Some would say to justify a belief in other minds one would need to have the ability to view the subjective experience of another person. But I argue that you can’t prove that other consciousness exist, because you can’t see them. And even if in the future we were able to see another person’s subjective experience, we wouldn’t be able to tell that that being was originally conscious to begin with; you would only have the idea that there is a possibility it exists. Many philosophers argue that because we observe people acting and behaving in ways that we do, that they must have a consciousness. But if that was the way to perceive consciousness wouldn’t Artificial Intelligence be said to have a consciousness under that definition?
Conscious awareness is an idea or concept that we believe to know we have but have never been able to prove it true. It is …show more content…
It would make sense that consciousness is a singular entity that we all can agree exists. But in a scenario where one experiences self by definition, one must experience other. Which also by definition means a mind outside the realm of the self’s observability which means that other minds don’t exist because we’re all one. And the experience of self and other is a consequence of the human brain. Jean – Paul Sartre writes, that an individual person or being-for-itself, can become cognizant of his own existence only when he sees himself being perceived by another being-for-itself. That is we can formulate a conscious state of being and an identity only when we are confronted by others who are also possessed of that consciousness and we apprehend ourselves in relation to them. But if this were true wouldn’t we have to prove that other people around us are conscious first? How can someone who we don’t believe to have conscious be the only way for us to achieve