Pheer777

What do you think is the future of consumer VR in the next 5-10 years? Do you think it'll remain a niche, enthusiast product or that It'll become much more mainstream? Thanks!

I hope this question doesn't come off in the wrong way, I am just intensely curious about the mind. For thousands of years philosophers have wondered about the nature of consciousness and its subjective nature. I have watched several videos and podcasts from Sam Harris, and I've started to doubt if science can quantify the qualitative nature of awareness and consciousness.

Granted, neuroscience is a relatively young field and great strides are constantly being made, but so far, the best explanations I've seen are neural "correlates" of consciousness, and that consciousness is an "emergent" property of the brain that arises from complex neural networks. It seems to me that even if every function of the brain is understood, it is impossible to bridge the gap between the subjective and the objective, especially from reducing every function to molecular levels.

Do you think that neuroscience will some day come to a solid conclusion for this question? Do you think a large paradigm shift in neuroscience may be necessary for understanding subjective experience?

Thank you

Thank you for your reply! Also yes I recall reading that article recently actually, and it is interesting, but I agree with you that we really don't know yet, or if we will ever know. I found this interesting video that goes a bit more in-depth, and actually has some interviews with Christof Koch that I found interesting. It also touches on the idea of the "hard problem" of consciousness which I alluded to in my original question.