(October 31, 2013 at 9:50 am)pocaracas Wrote: Beats me... I'm not the one claiming that qualia is a separate entity from the underlying neurological function.Have I made this claim? I don't think I've ever made a positive assertion about the nature of things.
All I keep saying is "wait and see" until AI produces something that can be described as qualia... and then, you'll have your answer.
As for AI-- genkaus and I have had several long discussions about this. How would you distinguish between an AI system that seems to experience (based on its behavior, for example), or actually experiences?