(October 10, 2018 at 10:17 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(October 10, 2018 at 9:44 am)polymath257 Wrote: Really? Why do you say that? In particular, why do you think that qualia aren't just brain states?
Scientists can't replicate qualia in a computer despite supercomputers being more powerful than human brain. It's likely that consciousness is immaterial
Arghh. I thought the "qualia" argument was dead a long time ago.
Qualia are built in to how the brain works. No, I don't know all the details, but they are how the conscious mind experiences its input.
Computers are not built to act in any way like a brain. Qualia would literally have to be programmed in, and the computer would have to experience the world in some analog of how the brain works. Neither happens today.
If you want to find out how the brain works, read something by Gerald Edelman. He does not talk about consciousness or qualia, because that goes beyond what he knows scientifically, but he shows why computers operate in a completely different mode of operation to the brain. The brain is designed to experience and adapt to that experience. Qualia literally are how we experience.
