(June 5, 2017 at 4:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(June 5, 2017 at 1:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: What does it mean "to experience"?
Oooh. . . semantics is fun! You gonna spin me on the merry-go-round for a while?
Experience is the subjective awareness of qualia.
OR. . . if you wanna get super-precise: Ya know when you open your eyes in the morning, and you see colors and shapes 'n' stuff? When you realize "I wasn't aware of the redness of the early-morning sun or the chirping of birds a minute ago, but now I am"? That's experience.
Well.... if you want to "identify what material systems do or do not experience qualia", then you need to first identify the material systems that coordinate this "I" that you talk about.
Would it make sense to discriminate between hardware and software, in order to facilitate the search of such a system?
Perhaps it's not a material thing, but rather a dynamic collection of things sending signals to each other?
