<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 1:16 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> You could
point to a specific part of my brain and say that is what caused
me to behave in a certain way, but behavior is not qualia. You
are in the same position that Evolution was in when it produced
the human race; you can not directly detect qualia in others,
you can only hypothesize about it from their behavior. </font></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>OK, in that case, what use is the word and concept "Qualia"?</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Not much use at all, that's why I rarely use the word except when other people start using it.</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Does
it add anything at all to our understanding of ourselves?</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Nope.</font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I don't believe in zombies.</i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">I don't either even though I can't prove it's untrue, I can't prove I not the only person who isn't a zombie. But I could not function if I really thought solipsism was true, few could, so one of my axioms of existence must be intelligent behavior implies consciousness; the fact that Evolution managed to produced at least one conscious being, me, despite Evolution's inability to directly detect consciousness, gives me some confidence that my axiom is not only useful in preserving my sanity but is probably true too. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">John K Clark </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div></div></div>