(December 4, 2013 at 8:12 am)bennyboy Wrote: No. Based on the assumption that Cyberboy has been installed with a mechanism that replicates those function occurring WITHIN the brain which are both necessary and sufficient to allow the existence of qualia.
That's what I said.
(December 4, 2013 at 8:12 am)bennyboy Wrote: You are focused on the end results, and ignore the WAY or mechanism of doing the processing as a likely candidate for the spawning of qualia. There's no good reason to discard those possibilities.
Mechanism of doing the processing is what the brain function is - which has been my likely candidate for the spawning of qualia all along
(December 4, 2013 at 8:12 am)bennyboy Wrote: I agree that to this point, the parallel doesn't hold. HOWEVER, you still have the problem that there's no way to establish your evidence really serves as evidence for what you want it to.
I don't accept that behavior, for example, is sufficient evidence to establish that an organism (or other system) actual experiences qualia. Your problem is that there really isn't any kind of evidence that's any better, and that also avoids begging the question.
Your acceptance doesn't matter. Any reason as to why it wouldn't be sufficient?
