RE: Mind is the brain?
March 12, 2016 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2016 at 10:44 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 12, 2016 at 10:26 pm)Chas Wrote: 'Qualia' is not a coherently defined concept. Why is the experience not simply the sum of the inputs?I'm not sure what's incoherent about the definition of qualia: it's what it's like to experience things.
And what do you mean by inputs? A rock "inputs" light in the sense that rock molecules can absorb photons, and "inputs" sound in the sense that vibrations in air cause vibrations in the rock, but I do not really believe that a rock experiences Led Zeppelin in any meaningful way. I'm pretty sure your view of mind is more complex than that.
Let's say that I "input" light and sound information into a robot. Can you, then, explain to me what it's like for that robot to experience the information? Would it experience cocoa as I do?
