> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:14:16AM -0500, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> >
> > Qualia are *not* (at present) a scientific theory. They are part of a
> > description of subjective experience.
>
> Yes, we're all soaking in it, but how does experiencing the
> subjective help
> us building AI or building animal simulations accurate enough to show
> individual variations?
Indeed, from an engineering point of view, all that really matters are the
*reported* experiences of intelligent agents, not whether these reported
experiences are "actually experienced."
> > Science is very valuable, but it is not the only worthwhile way of
> > describing, communicating or having experience.
>
> I'm not denying I'm having an experience. What I'm denying that there is
> anything interesting or valuable in that insight. It's all boring emergent
> stuff. Not linked to a meat puppet, or even a particular arrangement of
> atoms or bits.
In fact, though, your experiences ARE linked to the arrangement of
atoms/bits that constitutes you in a physical sense, which is exactly the
interesting puzzle re awareness and qualia...
-- Ben
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