[ExI] Mental Phenomena

[Brent Allsop]

Oh my gosh.  You see no difference between adding more ones and zeros, vs
adding an increasing number of distinguishable physical (or spiritual or
superveening if you must) qualities, both of which can equally well
represent everything about strawberries?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:02 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 08:35, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Stathis,
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>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:22 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> I see no reason why the third robot should lack qualia and the first two
>>> should have them.
>>>
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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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