[ExI] Possible seat of consciousness found
Stuart LaForge
avant at sollegro.com
Fri Feb 14 16:59:37 UTC 2020
Quoting Brent Allsop:
> Until they know what redness and greenness.... are and how they are
> computationally bound, and they can directly observe THAT, the external
> behavior they are seeing could be LOTS of stuff that isn't consciousness.
The researchers didn't test for color-recognition, but they did test
to see if the monkeys could experience the "universal quale" which is
pain. When the researchers pinched the monkeys' toes, the monkeys
withdrew their legs. To echo Will Steinberg's amazement, however, how
does an anaethetized monkey feel pain? You can tell this is good
science, however, because it raises more questions than it answers.
Especially if it can be independently replicated.
Stuart LaForge
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