[ExI] What is "Elemental Redness"?

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 02/05/2023 02:42, Jason Resch wrote:
> I don't follow why saying that "experience is" rather than "experience 
> is caused" escapes or answers the question of who is having the 
> experience.


The 'who' is the neural pattern. This is the central point.

I suppose you could say "experience is caused by the neural pattern, in 
the neural pattern", but that might be more confusing. To me at least, 
it's clearer to say the experience and the neural pattern are the same 
thing.

The point is to eliminate the dualism implicit in the language used. 
It's not "my experience is caused by these neural patterns" (which 
implies the question "what am I? What is it that these patterns cause to 
have the experience?"), it's "I am these neural patterns, having this 
experience". And no, that doesn't mean only patterns created by 
biological neurons will do. Anything capable of producing the same 
patterns will produce the same result: Me.

Ben