[extropy-chat] qualia

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/26/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Religion/God/Mysticism/Cartesian-Dualism is one answer to the question of
> qualia, but one that most extropians and transhumanists would probably
> prefer to reject. The need for divine intervention would make the
> extropian dream of strong AI enormously more difficult and intimidating.
> How would we persuade or force God to inject souls into our machines?
>
>
One minor point.
I would claim that mysticism, or at least the experience of the mystical, is
itself a quale.
Albeit one that most people do not experience, and certainly not often.

Dirk
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