[ExI] Do digital computers feel?

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Clark,

The single binding neuron, like glutamate, is just a simplified 
theoretical (i.e. testable) theory that will surely can be easily proven 
wrong.  It simply represents a required functional part of 
consciousness, what is required to make very complex compost qualitative 
experiences.  We are aware of all of the diversity, all at the same time 
as one composite experience.  When people do a traditional neural 
substitution, they end up removing this required critical functionality, 
causing all the hard problems. The single neuron represents any 
theoretically possible way of binding all possible elemental qualities 
into the diverse composite qualitative picture of the world we 
experience.  If you include whatever accomplishes this, however you may 
theorized it could be possible, in the neuro substitution,  you will not 
have any hard (as in impossible) problems emerge, and everyone will 
know, via subjective and objective observation what is going on at every 
step of the neuro substitution.


Brent



On 2/15/2017 1:44 PM, John Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com 
> <mailto:brent.allsop at gmail.com>>wrote:
>
>     ​> ​
>     Now, when you say you replace glutamate with glycene, and you
>     replace the glutamate receptor with a glycene receptor, then
>     assert that the comparison neuron will behave the same, you are
>     removing the important comparison functionality,
>
>
> ​I agree, but the brain is more than just one neuron. If you swapped 
> the way a neuron responds to new red and green signals coming from 
> your eyes without also changing how your memories are associated with 
> red and green then you'd stop your car at green lights and drive 
> through red ones.
>
> John K Clark  ​
>
>


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