(December 27, 2018 at 9:06 am)polymath257 Wrote: OK, please define what you mean by the term 'subjective experience'Something that qualia is part of.
Quote:it seems to me that any software that would be able to *exactly* mimic a human in all behavior would require an internal state that it has access toRobots can already mimic many aspects of human behavior and they don't seem to have any subjective experience. Advances in programming will make their behavior more human like but that doesn't mean that they will be able to feel pain.