[extropy-chat] Creating software with qualia

[gts]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:08:55 -0500, Brent Allsop <allsop at extropy.org>  
wrote:

> We do very similar thinking things with similar different kinds of  
> models as what you describe these software robots doing.  Thecritical  
> difference  is - all of our conscious knowledge or models arerepresented  
> with qualia - rather than abstract information representedby arbitrary  
> causal  properties.

But perhaps we can consider qualia as a type of idea or abstraction,  
something like what  Acy and Marc have suggested.

Acy says:

> I assert that qualia are merely tokens to enable conscious cognition
> about subconscious processes.

And Marc says:

> I proposed an equivalence between qualia and mathematical sets.


-gts