[ExI] GPT-4 on the Incommunicability of Qulia

[William Flynn Wallace]

You might be overlooking the number of neurons involved, creating different
levels of stimulation and experience.  Responses get stronger if adrenaline
is involved, but I don't know how that works on neurons.
bill w

On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:03 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 25/03/2023 13:20, Brent Allsop wrote:
> > Can we just instead focus on what is a physical "quality"?
>
>
> I don't even know what that might mean, when applied to non-physical
> things, like experiences. How can a non-physical thing have a physical
> anything?
>
> One of the interesting things about neuron spikes is that they are all
> the same. No quantitative or qualitative difference between one spike
> that's part of a train of spikes contributing to someone's experience of
> a C minor chord, and another one that's involved in regulating heart rate.
>
> Seeing as it's neuron spikes that build up into all our experiences, I'd
> say that 'physical quality' of anything mental, is a meaningless phrase.
>
> Ben
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