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0 pointsqsera27d ago0 comments

>You can reduce the human auditory process to a similar mechanical list.

You can't. Because we don't know at which point sound gets registered in consciousness.

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fc417fc80226d ago

Because you can't even define what consciousness is, let alone objectively test for it.

You are entirely wrong though. You most certainly _can_ reduce the human auditory process to a (bio)mechanical list.

You have unilaterally, arbitrarily, and without justification added consciousness to that list.

qseraOP26d ago

>Because you can't even define what consciousness is, let alone objectively test for it.

Exactly. So if we understand "hearing" as something registered by consciousness, then implicitly things that are not conscious cannot "hear".

>reduce the human auditory process

Yes, human auditory process, yes. "Hearing" no. I see that you cleverly switched to the "auditory process" instead of "hearing". moving goal posts, are we?

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