RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 22, 2016 at 12:38 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 12:40 am by bennyboy.)
(September 21, 2016 at 10:14 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 20, 2016 at 11:35 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I can see how a certain algorithm would BEHAVE as a conscious agent. What I can't see is how it would BECOME a conscious agent.
I think Jor is saying that they don't actually become conscious agents.They think they think but they don't. They don't actually feel the feelings they feel. She turns Chalmers's thought problem on its head by saying that ours already is the zombie world.
When I hear that argument, I feel the illusion of annoyance. For a zombie, it's a surprisingly rich illusion that I'm not actually experiencing.
