At 03:02 PM 2/24/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Er...except qualia are supposedly
>non-computable...which means finding the laws that run
>them would render them non-qualia.
well, lets say i 'have the qualia' of seeing a red button in front of me,
which is hooked up to my visual cortex in a complex way. when i 'have the
qualia' of pushing that button, i promptly 'get the qualia' of a red tint
to my vision. moreover, i 'get the qualia' of seeing a computer monitor
output what seems to be a high-quality rendering of my visual qualia; that
is, a red-tinted (black/dark tinted?) picture of a computer monitor, ad
infinitum... then, on another nearby monitor, i 'get the qualia' of seeing
what seems to be the status of an ongoing neural translation program, in
which it seems that the qualia of what i see is being interpeted and output
on a monitor with higher resolution then my eyes have..
old thought experment, i know, and i'm aware that its sorta been done in a
cat... but cmon. would my qualia have just been computed, in some sense? if
not, what can be said to be happening? and yea, i know how godelian
concerns would factor in here... and i'm aware of the uncertainty involving
everything empirical, etc... but, if the above situation couldn't be called
computing an aspect of qualia, i'm not sure what would be.
sayke, v2.3.05
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