<div dir="auto"><div>Hi John,<div dir="auto">The left hemisphere of your brain does more than just "infer from behavior", the nature of the qualities in your right hemisphere.</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 9, 2023, 3:42 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 8:20 AM Brent Allsop <<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">brent.allsop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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 dir="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Could I get some upvotes for my answer to this question?<br></i><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-that-we-know-exists-but-dont-understand-at-all-scientifically-or-technologically/answer/Brent-Allsop-1?prompt_topic_bio=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><i>https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-that-we-know-exists-but-dont-understand-at-all-scientifically-or-technologically/answer/Brent-Allsop-1?prompt_topic_bio=1</i></a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><font size="4">I don't understand what you mean when you say that people are"qualia blind". Everybody (and natural selection too) is blind to qualia, except for those that they themselves are experiencing, the qualia that other people experience can only be inferred from behavior. And exactly the same thing could be said about the qualia experienced by an AI. </font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span> </font><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div>
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