Richard, As a general rule, I find discussions about consciousness, qualia, and so forth to be unhelpful, frustrating, and unnecessary. However, I enjoyed this paper a great deal. Thanks for writing it. Because of my inclinations on these matters, I am not an expert on the history of thought on the topic, or its current status among philosophers, but I find your account to be credible and reasonably clear. I'm not particularly repulsed by the idea that "... our most immediate, subjective experiance of the world is, in some sense, an artifact produced by the operation of the brain" so searching for a more satisfying conclusion is not really high up on my priority list. Still, I don't see anything immediately objectionable in your analysis. I am not certain about the "distinguishing power" of your falsifiable predictions, but only because I would need to give that considerably more thought. I look forward to being in the audience when you present the paper at AGI-09. Derek Zahn agiblog.net
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