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language is very, very heavily flawed and tragically cant express some complex concepts.

i have a concept in my head that i cannot express with english due to how complex said concept is.
i really do wish i could express it.. but, it's really philosophical and touches on concepts english was never meant to handle.

or it might be a fault on my own, after all im not the best with words.

quite an tragic event unfortunately.
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    i believe David Chalmers' idea of "Hard Problem of Consciousness" is the concept i am thinking of!

    i tried my best to write my idea down and it does seem similar to David Chalmers' concept:
    "why aren't we autonomous and having the visual inputs / feeling actually present instead of being sent to our brain directly and it just working with that
    its like we are literally our brain yet it is confusing since a brain is simply flesh and meat, a glorified algorithm, if you will.

    looking at an animal or another human, you can see they just act.
    why am I not like them? why do we actually exist in our head and see in first person instead of our brain just taking input and gives an output (or action if you will)

    you could perfectly replicate a human brain with a computer but they aren't humans
    there is something more that you can't replicate with a computer
    but we have no idea what causes that "something more" in humans"
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      blud just discovered that consciousness isn't understood
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      i know that consciousness isn't understood -- i have been knowing it isn't understood
      that's not even what my post is about either.
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      still dont understand why u say language is flawed when the "complex concept" you're talking about has been explained through language
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      well i didn't know the concept was already written out by someone because i had no idea what to even look for.

      i had no words to express the concept for around an month and today (after i created the post), i finally found the words and wrote it out, then started searching and stumbled upon David Chalmers "Hard Problem of Consciousness"

      it might have been not complex for someone else but it was certainly a complex idea for me.

      my point still stands though, there are some concepts that are difficult and cant be expressed in english.
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      i feel like it was also quite obvious i found out about the hard problem of consciousness after i created this post.

      and its still a complex concept. just not as complex as i thought.
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      transforming your thoughts into words is probably one of the main challenges when it comes to philosophy
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      because we aren't cats