On Jul 11, 2:52 am, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm saying that > the potential for awareness must be built in to matter at the lowest > level or not at all. Complexity alone cannot cause awareness in > inanimate objects, let alone the kind of rich, ididopathic phenomena > we think of as qualia.
i don't see a much of a connection between those statements. Complexity could be necessary but insufficient. It is, for instance, difficult to see how you could have simple colour qualia. Colours represent a lot of intormation. > The only thing that would come close to convincing me that a > virtualized brain was successful in producing human consciousness > would be if a person could live with half of their brain emulated for > a while, then switch to the other half emulated for a while and report > as to whether their memories and experiences of being emulated were > faithful. They could report one thing whilst experiencing or having experienced another. Let's they have bits of their brain replaced by functionally equivalent silicon; let's also say that silicon can't have qualia. Then, as the replacement procedes, their qualia will fade...but they will continue to report them, because of the functional equivalence. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
