Well obviously I understand exactly what you mean, but perhaps you could spell it out a bit for the idiots in the back.
1. this is a shitpost (posts that start with a lower-case letter are usually tongue-in-cheek)
2. functionalism goes "actually, algorithms/mathematical structures are the more fundamental thing (ground), consciousness is just a set of specific patterns instantiated in matter (figure). nothing beyond that" (i think there's two versions, one taking mathematical structures as ground, the other doing a weird hybrid of "algorithms instantiated in matter"). but i claim that 1/2
know how to deal with algorithms/mathematical structure, because I *really* want to be a mathematical/algorithmic platonist, but if you pressed me to actually present my best-view-considered thought I'd just deny that algorithms exist (which makes difference hard to justify)
I don't deny the hard problem, but I think everybody else misunderstands it ("not about unifying consciousness and matter, but qualia and algorithms")
@niplav
>subject to much empty debate
no it isn't /s
@cosmiccitizen i will now stop writing about this because the topic is fraught with misunderstanding and subject to much empty debate