I just recently wrote some thoughts on twitter about this. My thoughts there are a rough sketch at bridging the gap of doubt between personal experience on one hand and the compelling case for cybernetic totalism on the other. I'm thinking of expanding this is into a full article to better make the case, but this is just some informal off-the cuff thoughts exploring my own reasons for viscerally doubting the physical system explanation of experience, and the reasoning that brings me to resolve that and see how it is feasible. If this were a real article and not a tweet thread I would draw on Hutto & Myin's "Radicalizing Enactivism" book more explicitly, which makes one of the best cases I've seen for why naturalistic realism is enough, and that dualist duplication of correlates in a mental realm of qualia etc is unnecessary.
https://twitter.com/rplevy/status/1043934649834037249 On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:07 PM Jim Bromer via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote: > I already regret asking these questions, but do you truly (really - > honestly) believe that: > Conscious Experience or soul or Qualia or the experience of being (or > whatever you want to call it) does not actually exist (or occur)? > and/or > This experience (whatever you want to call it) can therefore occur in > a computer program? > Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2e5182d7ce6527f7-Mf46365897a6922d4a4cd3763 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
