[ExI] are qualia communicable? Was Why stop at glutamate?

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Another even deeper mystery that the communicability of qualia is how the
brain creates an I.
If you think about it, somehow the qualia is "communicated" among the
100,000s or even millions of neurons that are needed to
experience something like red. By the way, there was some time ago some
talk about "mother neurons" or single neurons that were activated when a
particular face was shown, almost implying we have in our brains a neuron
that activates when we see Brad Pitt. I'm not sure what is the status of
that line of research (I will look it up) but I don't think any experience
is associated with the activation of a single neuron.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that when we experience something millions of
neurons are involved.
Jason, given you know so much about consciousness, how do these neurons
communicate to each other the experience of red (or anything else)? Somehow
millions of individual entities come together and say "I see red". I think
this phenomenon is even more important to understand than qualia.
Understanding of this phenomenon comes first because somehow there is some
sharing and integration of experience among these neurons. The qualia are
indeed communicated among these neurons at least. There is no point to talk
about qualia if we don't understand how an I is created by the brain in the
first place.
How the activity of many becomes the experience of an I?

Giovanni







On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 12:17 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Jason Resch via extropy-chat wrote:
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> > We can rewire all of Bob's brain to equal all of Alice's brain. Then we
> can ensure that when they look at the same strawberry under
> > the same light they see the same thing. But short of that there will
> always be doubts, if not an impossibility, that the two can ever
> > experience the same state of subjective awareness. And the requirement
> of rewiring a brain I think is proof that qualia aren't
> > communicable, and why experience is always trapped within and forever
> bound to the experiencer.
>
> You can even argue that time is a component. Space, time, software and
> hardware, and since the two, regardless of equal hardware and software,
> cannot occupy the same space at the same time it is impossible to ever
> be certain.
>
> I think I vaguely tried to make this point somewhere "up there" but I
> think I'll have to reside with Jason on this one.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
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