[ExI] Do digital computers feel?

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 15:57:09 UTC 2017


On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Remember, that it is glutamate that has the redness quality.


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No molecule has the redness qualia or any other qualia, they are far too
simple for that. Glutamate may be able to produce the redness qualia but
only in association with certain specific brains organized in certain
specific ways. In other brains organized in different ways
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glutamate
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could produce the blueness qualia or the pain qualia or no qualia
whatsoever.
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 John K Clark
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