[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 17:13:38 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Brent Allsop
<brent.allsop at canonizer.com> wrote:

>
> Is there an infinite number of different crayons to be discovered?  Boy,
> what would a picture with all that be like?  Or, just as there is a limited
> number of elements, are there a limited number of elemental phenomenal
> qualities correlated to sets of them?

### Yes, most likely there are more qualia referring to colors that
could be discovered. We know that persons with various forms of
color-blindness have fewer distinct qualia describing color. We know
that the number of distinct color shades is determined by the
properties of V2 thin stripes - and it would be surprising if the thin
stripes of a non-color blind person happened to encode the maximum
possible number of colors. Therefore, it is likely that some
modification of the V2 and its inputs (e.g. adding another retinal
pigment and increasing the bandwidth of color processing pathways in
the LGN and V1) would yield superhuman numbers of qualia.

Building a device capable of experiencing an infinite number of qualia
might be however practically impossible, since this would require
shuttling infinite amounts of information in a finite time and space.

Rafal



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