If you are a Sam Harris fan you will understand that there is no observer, the observation just exists by itself. So a conscious observer is just another word for consciousness

I know Mr Sam Harris. And he is right from his frame of reference. When Mr Harris sees a dog barking, he would say: "Omg, here is the dog!" "Omg, there is the bark" 😂

True 😂 our language is not equipped to talk about that

A conscious observer cannot exist without consciousness - I think I agree with that. ‘I think therefore conscious observer is’.

I would stick to my position in my previous message and not move on before that has been satisfied.

But it’s a great discussion.

In which case could we have consciousness without observer ?

Cons iousness is already without observer

We have consciousness (whether neurons firing or a simulation, it’s our condition) - and we don’t know if there’s an observer.
I don’t see how it logically (or any other philosophical means to knowledge) follows. It isn’t necessitated.
Also it’s shifting the burden. This would not mean anything if we’re using different means to knowledge.

Consciousness without observer is like saying we can have bark without the dog. Or ?

It depends on what you mean by dog. If you mean a single entity that decided to bark and also created the bark and also walks and can be happy and sad, that entity doesn't exist. It's just not how reality works.

So you are saying that on a deeper level of reality the bark dogs, instead of the dog barks ?

I'm saying that the bark exists as a sound in the consciousness of the dog and as information in sinapses and as waves of particles in the air

How about the Qualia of the Dog? How do you explain that away? 🦮

I think it’s an incorrect argument in many ways, some I’ve pointed out already, but I’ll play along.
In your analogy, a dog is required to bark. Demonstrate that an observer is required for consciousness.
2nd argument- We know the bark exists because we observe barks and observe dogs and conclude that dogs bark. Please demonstrate observers create consciousness.

I just explained one quale, the bark. You can do the same with all the other ones

By the way, I am now convinced that eating pork and steak is deeply immoral and unnecessary. But since I love burgers, I would love to be proven wrong.

@Tiago Rodrigues nope you’re right, it is completely immoral and unnecessary atleast for now with the way it gets on your plate

Omg 😂

@Tiago Rodrigues Can you give the reasons why you think it’s immoral

> By the way, I am now convinced that eating pork and steak is deeply immoral and unnecessary. But since I love burgers, I would love to be proven wrong.
@Tiago Rodrigues I’m having steak as we speak 😂

@T2the2ndpowr Because even if you are worried about health risks of becoming a vegan/vegetarian, you don't need red meat because you can always eat chikens, turkeys and fish which have much smaller brains

and presumably less complex consciousness (or at least more different from ours)

Chickens and fish especially are still very intelligent and no less intelligent then a cow.

Meh - how do we prioritize rights and what right rights should be extended to what/ whom. That’s the real question. Anthropomorphic empathy as the only moral virtue in a world of competing virtues is just over simplification.

You’re reasoning doesn’t make any real logical sense but I’m guessing it means more to you then just using logic

Is it a religious thing?

> @Tiago Rodrigues nope you’re right, it is completely immoral and unnecessary atleast for now with the way it gets on your plate
@kaizen I’d like to learn more about how it gets on our plates 🙂

@T2the2ndpowr I'm a zoologist and what you said is just demonstrably false.

Absolutely not. Chickens are extremely intelligent animals and to say they’re not because there brains are small is wrong

@StoneCold316 factory farming

We seem to have jumped a few steps - intelligence alone is how we define what rights should be extended to whom?

Intelligence isn’t a good metric

No it’s not

I think the ability to feel suffering and pleasure is the best one we have

I mean we don’t have to eat animals at all we could get plenty of protein by eating pounds and pounds on kale a day

But that wouldn’t be very efficient

@T2the2ndpowr First, slow down with the strawman, I never said chickens are not extremely intelligent. Second, @kaizen is right about intelligence.

@T2the2ndpowr there are protein heavy vegan substitutes

Yeah

Like kale