On 14 Aug 2011, at 16:38, Craig Weinberg wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3keLeMwfHY
Does the idea of this machine solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness,
or are qualia something more than ideas?
Quite cute little physical implementation of a Turing machine.
Read Sane04, it explains how a slight variant of that machine, or how
some program you can give to that machine, will develop qualia, and
develop a discourse about them semblable to ours, so that you have to
treat them as zombie if you want have them without qualia. They can
even understand that their solution is partial, and necessary partial.
Their theories are clear, transparent and explicit, unlike yours where
it seems to be hard to guess what you assume, and what you derive.
But then you admit yourself not trying to really convey your
intuition, and so it looks just like "racism": "you will not tell me
that this (pointing on silicon or a sort of clock) can think?" I don't
take such move as argument.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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