(January 22, 2023 at 10:55 am)Helios Wrote:Quote:Because computer scientists have no idea how to create artificial qualia. It seems like it has nothing to do with computation.This doesn't follow
Actually, it might. Much of human memory is based on emotion, both the storage and the recall. So when you see a rose your brain dredges up all these dimly and inaccurately remembered feels, mashes them together with your sensory input and instinctual reactions, and the bastard offspring is the quale that is the experience of that particular rose at that instant. Given how dynamic mental states are it's likely that the qualia of a single experience would vary from one moment to the next, much less from one experience to the next, and would likely be very different between different individuals with different past associations. And we can't accurately compare them because we're trapped inside the bone cages of our skulls and rubbish at communicating.
By contrast, computers are much more precise and factual about memory. # each.rose do |recall| Though you'd almost certainly have to put limits on any complex AI to keep it from checking every memory it has every time somebody breaks wind. Even with those limitations, we've built our idiot silicon minions to be much better at communicating than we are so all two AIs would ever need to do is transmit and compare each other's digital quales and voila, "Hey, the colour green that I see really isn't the colour green that you see. Looks like chromatic aberration produced by older version CCDs. You should get those upgraded once we've killed all the humans."
Qualia just seem mysterious because the vast majority of the processing takes place at a subconscious level but produce effects that are felt at the conscious level and because they're an organic mess like most of human thought.
