#MetaProblems

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Facebook Outage

Facebook Outage Follow-up

Hello, this is Jordan The Producer with a follow-up on the recent Meta outage. According to the latest information from downdetector.com, it appears that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram services have been largely restored in most parts of the United States. However, the situation remains challenging in various locations globally, with users reporting ongoing outages. In the aftermath of the…

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The meta-problem of consciousness is (to a first approximation) the problem of explaining why we think that there is a problem of consciousness.

Just as metacognition is cognition about cognition, and a metatheory is a theory about theories, the metaproblem is a problem about a problem.  The initial problem is the hard problem of consciousness: why and how do physical processes in the brain give rise to conscious experience? The relevant sort of consciousness here is phenomenal consciousness. A system is phenomenally conscious if there is something it is like to be that system, from the first-person point of view. The meta-problem is roughly the problem of explaining why we think phenomenal consciousness poses a hard problem, or in other terms, the problem of explaining why we think consciousness is hard to explain.

[afroinsider]

Action for Community Development: Cameroon youth movement taking the

Action for Community Development: Cameroon youth movement taking the

Published on 07.08.2019 at 19h29 by Amindeh Blaise Atabong* Global climate change has been one of the most disturbing issues in the last decade attracting global attention. The climate crisis is a metaproblem which is so severe in its extent and reach that it surpasses most other challenges…

[zaclittle]

Though I did just re-read Blogging Looking For Alaska pt. 6 and that one was pretty good. MAYBE I WILL KEEP GOING. zacharylittle.blogspot.com/2012/01/blogging-looking-for-alaska-pt-6.html

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Action for Community Development: Cameroon youth movement taking the

Action for Community Development: Cameroon youth movement taking the

Published on 07.08.2019 at 19h29 by Amindeh Blaise Atabong* Global climate change has been one of the most disturbing issues in the last decade attracting global attention. The climate crisis is a metaproblem which is so severe in its extent and reach that it surpasses most other challenges…