Re: Predictions by Kurzweil

From: Skye (skyezacharia@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 16:02:50 MST


Er...except qualia are supposedly
non-computable...which means finding the laws that run
them would render them non-qualia.

--- sayke <sayke@gmx.net> wrote:
> 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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