/lit/ - Literature

People like Dennet who claim that consciousness is an "illusion" (whatever that is supposed to mean) and swear up and down that qualia literally don't exist must have some extreme form of aphantasia to the degree that they can't even observe themselves having experiences. The interesting thing, though, is that just having language installed in their brain gives them enough rationality to introspect on their condition, but their introspection is exclusively propositional. They have no access to perspectival "what-it's-like-ness" and so they come to a conclusion as absurd as "consciousness doesn't exist".

They're a weird kind of of pseudo-zombie not in the sense that they aren't conscious, but that they can never really understand that they are conscious.