On Mon, May 6, 2013 Brent Allsop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@canonizer.com" target="_blank">brent.allsop@canonizer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">> A better way to think about things, than thinking of things as "inputs or outputs" is whether you have to interpret, whatever is representing or communicating (input or output) the information.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Such as when we input through our eyes light that has bounced off a man with tears running down his cheeks to mean that the man is experiencing sadness; or when we hear a child laughing we interpret that to mean the child is happy. <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">> Clark claimed: "we can only infer and not observe the existence of quala". </div>
</blockquote><div><br>Yes.<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> the currently leading consensus theories at Canonizer.com are [...]<br>
</blockquote><br>I am not impressed. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">> John, you forgot the "YET".</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>If you claimed to have objectively detected qualia in a third party how could you convince me that you have done what you have claimed you have done? But all this is really irrelevant because even without such a test all of us, every single one of us, believes that other people are conscious when they are not sleeping or under anesthesia or dead, and they believe this for one reason and for one reason only, they behave intelligently when they are not sleeping or under anesthesia or dead. And I'll be damned if I understand why we're supposed to change the rules of the game if the thing in question is a computer and not another human. <br>
<br> John K Clark <br> </div><div><br></div></div>