Colin:Qualia generation has been highly localised into specific regions in cranial brain material already. Qualia are not in the periphery. Qualia are not in the spinal CNS, Qualia are not in the cranial periphery eg eyes or lips
Colin, This is to a great extent nonsense. Which sensation/emotion - (qualia is a word strictly for philosophers not scientists, I suggest) - is not located in the body? When you are angry, you never frown or bite or tense your lips? The brain helps to generate the emotion - (and note "helps"). But emotions are bodily events - and *felt* bodily. This whole discussion ignores the primary paradox about consciousness, (which is first and foremost sentience) : *the brain doesn't feel a thing* - sentience/feeling is located in the body outside the brain. When a surgeon cuts your brain, you feel nothing. You feel and are conscious of your emotions in and with your whole body. Consciousness is a *whole body* affair.Mere computers have no way of copying it. Robots perhaps. Brains in a vat, or a black computer box, are strictly fantasies of philosophers and AI-ers. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
