Programming the Human Mind:

[bennyboy]

The human mind is a function of the human brain and the human body situated in an environment. There is no reason nor evidence to suspect anything else is involved.

Let's assume that qualia, for example the subjective experience of red-ness rather than just the ability to process light of that frequency and produce behaviors, is a function of the human brain.  Now, on what level of the brain does it supervene?  Does simply reproducing the input/output of the brain imply a subjective agency?  Or is subjective experience dependent on the special WAY in which we take in information from our senses and convert them to behaviors?  Is it in the particular nature of organic neurons, or is it substance-irrelevant, instead being a funciton of the flow of information?

It's all very fine and well to wave in the general direction of the brain as the root of the human mind.  But if you are trying to reproduce the ability to subjectively experience outside the brain, how will you know if your machine really experiences, or is just a philosophical zombie?

It seems mind is in a function of the organic animal brain, but this does not mean that reproducing the functions of the brain guarantees the existence of a subjective mind. That's a non sequitur.