[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.

[Emlyn]

On 26/11/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 16:34 -0500, John K Clark wrote:
>
> > We might value such a [qualia] gene a great deal but to Natural
> > Selection it's useless, in fact to Natural
> > Selection it's invisible.
>
> Why useless and invisible? Presumably animals run from forest fires
> because they smell, hear, see, or feel them. All qualia.
>
> -gts

Funny, they just seem like mundane physical inputs to me.

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