On Jul 27, 7:37 am, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> > wrote:
> But you must believe that your vision is normal, because the parts of > your brain responsible for formulating beliefs and expressing them are > receiving exactly the same inputs as they would normally receive. I'm saying that they would not receive the same inputs just because what we see on an MRI looks the same to us. That may not be the whole picture. It may not even be half of the picture. If you replace a room full of people dancing with audioanimatronic mannequins doing the exact same dance, the mannequins don't start dancing by themselves because they feel like dancing. > As I > keep repeating, that is the entire point of the experiment. The > replacement neurons function the same, As I keep repeating, we cannot assume that it is possible for anything other than neurons to function the same as neurons. I believe that they wouldn't have to be identical, but my hunch is that the emulation would be severely lacking without chemical and biological levels being represented. except they are assumed to lack > consciousness because they lack some vital component. Is it possible > to make such neurons? I don't believe it is possible as it would lead > to the absurdity of partial zombies. But there are partial zombies already. That's why people drink coffee. > The claim is that in order to preserve consciousness it is only > necessary to replicate the externally observable behaviour of neural > tissue. Observable to who? Craig -- 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.
