[ExI] Mental Phenomena

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 08:35, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Stathis,
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:22 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I see no reason why the third robot should lack qualia and the first two
>> should have them.
>>
>
> You have got to be kidding me.  This is totally shocking to me.  No wonder
> we are having such problems communicating.
>
> You must be completely not understanding anything I've been talking about
> how the word red isn't physically red.  While our knowledge of red things
> has a physical redness quality.
> You think these two different representations of red things are in any way
> the same??????
>
> PIcking my jaw up off the floor.
>

But the third robot can distinguish red things from green things. It is
this ability which is associated with qualia.

> --
Stathis Papaioannou
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