RE: Mindfulness or Mindlessness?
September 5, 2021 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2021 at 9:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 5, 2021 at 3:03 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Now, if Searle is right, there wouldn't need to be a 1:1 reduction, because "redness" may be some artifact of neural structure or something. So biological naturalism can explain qualia. Functionalism can't. That's the question. That's the bear. Which theory is more accurate? I don't know. Why do you think functionalism is true compared to biological naturalism, Angrboda?
You might have missed this, but it was a few pages back. A sim doesn't have to look like anything, but it will look like -something-. We might see red for another color, or another thing. We might hear red instead of seeing it. In whatever case, your question could be applied, but in every application the complaint could not credibly be that functionalist theories can't explain it, but that you think the explanation is or may be wrong.
To functionalists, who posit multiple realizability, it's doing the experience of red, however done and however experienced, that counts as the thing. Not the specific bits and parts in the individual experiencer. Many functionalist theories of mind aren't even theories of human mind. If articial intelligence is possible, multiple realizability is true. If machine consciousness is possible, multiple realizability is true. If there's any other conscious creature anywhere on earth or in the universe..multiple realizability is true. The only state of affairs where multiple realizability could even be false..is if we are the sole conscious agents in the cosmos and it's completely irreproducible any other way.
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