RE: Free Will
September 1, 2016 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 10:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2016 at 10:37 am)bennyboy Wrote: My computer seems to work okay without it (so far as I know) experiencing what it's like to be a computer.Your computer doesn't do what we do. I'd simply repeat all those questions I just asked of Yoo. Saying your computer works fine at what it is without qualia is meaningless and uninformative.
Quote:My car seems to drive around pretty well without it (so far as I know) experiencing what it's like to be a car.-does it do what we do? Your car is no more human than your computer is...and so this is as uninformative as the last. The question asked was why -we- experience qualia. What function it serves in us. Why would evolution produce or preserve it.
Quote:There's no reason to think that ANY mechanism would need to experience what it is like to be itself in order to function properly. So are you disregard mind as a brute fact, or attempt to explain why one particular mechanism experiences what it's like to be itself?Hey, if you think that you could develop the relationship you have with your wife without qualia.....then so be it buddy. Otherwise, it looks like you -do- need qualia to "function properly" -as a human being. The relationship you have with your wife is a function that can be selected for (or, admittedly, against). In the case of human beings, these deep interpersonal relationships formed on the basis of qualia seem to be evolutionarily advantageous, wouldn't you agree?
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