[ExI] Microsoft wants to reincarnate people as chatbots

[Brent Allsop]

Hi MIke,

Wait, "qualia blind' is just a label for a language (or anyone) that uses
one abstract word for all things red.
And it is a fact that if you use one word for all things red, you can't say
effing of the ineffable statements that bridge the explanatory gap like you
can with statements that do use more than one word for all things red like:
"My redness is like your greenness, both of which we call red."
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Both Brent-sub0 and Brent-sub1 will understand this, and they will both use
more than one word for all things red, so such an argument will not be
possible.between them?
Or are you saying that Brent-sub1 (like Mike-sub0), unlike brent-sub0, does
not yet understand this simple fact about the meaning of 'qualia blind'?

In other words, I love razzing right back. ;)

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:48 PM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 9:30 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> descriptions of stuff in the brain is a description of my redness I'll be
>> able to make something which can, like me, honestly answer the question:
>> "What is redness like for Brent Allsop?"
>>
>
> I predict that conversation will be (until the last computable bit in the
> universe) an argument between Brent-sub0 and Brent-sub1 calling each other
> qualia blind then restating everything that each has ever said about the
> redness of red.
>
> I might make this prediction one year from now ... but meh, that's been
> done.  :)
>
> Fwiw, I've noticed people take everything I say in the worst way
> possible... so this disclaimer is to assure Brent that I'm razzing him as a
> sibling in this ExI family and not cyberbullying.  That's maybe a
> conversation for another thread
>
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