(October 6, 2013 at 4:48 am)pocaracas Wrote:(October 5, 2013 at 10:41 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: The two are fundamentally different, yes. Because every operation in a computer is wholly reducible to a common type, or kind of function.
This is not true of a mind.
And artificial neural networks emulating brain behavior resolves nothing of the problem. This has been a well-accepted philosophical possibility for a long time.
Rather, the issue is nothing you have said, not even an abstraction layer, can explain the irreducibility of qualia to the functioning of the brain. Before you deny this, think about the sentence carefully. The answer is not "qualia is reducible to neural behavior", because qualia is not chemistry, it is sense experience.
yeah... you keep your delusion, I'll keep mine.
Live long and prosper.
If you see a machine displaying qualia in the future, remember me...
Way to throw the toys out of the pram, pocararas.
