[ExI] GPT-4 on the Incommunicability of Qulia

[Brent Allsop]

Obviously, you can't say something like this to a computer:

My redness is like your grenness, both of which we call red.

Since all an abstract computer has is the abstract word 'red' for its
knowledge.  Since there is now redness quality in an abstract computer, it
can't know the definition of redness.






On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 7:24 AM Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com> wrote:

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> If you have a dictionary for what your code for redness is, you can eff
> the ineffable nature of a quality.
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> Here is an example of a sufficiently defined effing statement:
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> My redness is like your grenness, both of which we call red.
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