[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Omar Rahman]

On 2013-05-01, at 10:07 PM, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:

> 
>> ... On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Digital Consciousness .
> 
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:24 PM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>> Rather, I had only one quante, but now I have a bunch of quantia.
>> 
>>> ... As in many soft sciences, as soon as we can get some kind of hard
>> numbers, the credibility of the field and my own confidence in it goes 
>> up dramatically.  I am more a numbers guy than a words guy.
> 
>> ...  We need to be able to measure a planck-scale-quale...  [which everyone
> would intrinsically  'mind' because of the old adage]
> 
>> ...here's some familiar numbers for you:
> 5.39121e-44 s
> 2.17645e-8 kg
> 1.616252e-35 m
> 6.0221413e+23
> 
>> ..."planck-scale-quale" hehe
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> 
> My confidence in the quale notion is already increasing by several
> kiloqualia.
> 
> spike

Now that we can measure qualia I don't understand all the fuss I was making. My confidence has made a quantum quale leap!

Omar