[ExI] Computers, qualia, 'symbol grounding' (@Gordon)

Brent Allsop brent.allsop at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 22:04:43 UTC 2023


All you really need are grounded definitions of your terms.

An example grounded statement:

My redness is like your grenness, both of which we call red.




On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 4:03 PM Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 1:37 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> 2 - what makes anyone think that we can ever compare what is going on in
>> human brains with what is going on inside a computer?  Personally I think
>> it is impossible.   Can anyone tell me how this can be possible?
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> See the 1. weak, 2. stronger, and 3 strongest ways to eff physical
> qualities in the "Ways to Eff the Ineffable" section of the "Physicists
> Don't Understand Color
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/k9x4uh83yex4ecw/Physicists%20Don%27t%20Understand%20Color.docx?dl=0>"
> paper.
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