[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Bryan Bishop]

Brent:

Your entire message is unrelated to what I was telling Anders. Please
advise.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at canonizer.com>wrote:
>
> It seems quite clear that 'tetrochromats' and likely others, experience
> color qualities that us mere trichromats have never experienced before.  I
> guess that's fine if some people have no curiosity towards knowing what the
> 4th quality (and everything else that is phenomenally possible) they've
> never experienced before is like.
>

I don't see what any of that has to do with my comment about consciousness.


> But, I am interested, and evidently there is a growing expert consensus
> that is similarly interested.  And I'm in the camp that is predicting that
> the discovery of what the underlying neural collates of such qualities are,
> and how these qualities map to physics, will be the greatest
>

Maybe, but we weren't talking about which circuits are responsible for
processing those signals.


> What good is any thinking about the future, uploading, and all that, while
> remaining completely disinterested and ignorant in all that?
>

Huh?


> represent more diverse conscious knowledge with, making you significantly
> more consciously intelligent?
>

You got me, I also don't believe in intelligence.

- Bryan
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