Re: Predictions by Kurzweil

From: sayke (sayke@gmx.net)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 15:28:35 MST


At 07:35 PM 2/24/00 -0000, you wrote:
>John Clark wrote:
>
>> Huh? Qualia are appearances so if they seem to exist then
>> they do. [...]

>Then Bryan Moss wrote:
>I'm not saying that qualia do or do not exist, but if they
>do not then it seems reasonable to suggest that there is a
>mechanism in your brain that fools you into thinking you
>Experience the world. If such a mechanism were found then
>it would be evidence against the existence of qualia.

        lets say we locate the entire source code to windows 2000. does that
disprove the existance of windows 2000? heh wtf. pardon my ignorance, but:
i lurked the entire first battle of the qualia war, and it still seems to
me that to use the terms "experience" and "Experience" supports a
meaningless distinction. it seems to me that, if the
"experience"/"Experience" distinction is to hold, we should call dim light
"light" and bright light "Light."
        if i have no idea what i'm talking about, which could very well be the
case, please enlighten me, if you have the time, etc...

sayke, v2.3.05



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