[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Bryan,

Given this, it sounds like you think most people believe in some kind of 
substance dualistic soul?  I would agree that there is no evidence 
supporting that and why I'm not in that minority camp. But while it is 
true that a minority 6 of the 50 or so experts that have canonized their 
views, are still in a substance dualism camp, there are 34 of 50, 
including Dennett, Chalmers, Lehar, Hameroff, Smythies... and many 
others not in this camp, that all agree with the substance dualist on at 
least the point that qualia like redness are the most important part of 
consciousness.

And you still haven't answered my question.  What, where, and how is a 
redness quality, and what makes it different than a greenness quality?

Brent Allsop



On 4/27/2013 1:53 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Brent Allsop
> <brent.allsop at canonizer.com> wrote:
>> I have a question for you.  Are you saying a redness quality is a quality of
>> the strawberry?  Or, worse, that a redness quality doesn't exist?  You seem
>> to be saying that there is no evidence that things like a redness quality
>> exist?
> That's not what people mean when they say consciousness, mind or soul.
>
> - Bryan
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