I think the "Qualia" is the philosophical term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Steven Pinker at the end of his book "how the mind works" recognizes that all the brain functional modules explained in the book say nothing about the qualia. It says that we can not understand this mystery in the same way that a monkey is incapable to understand the plot of a film. 2012/8/14 Roger <rclo...@verizon.net> > Hi Brian Tenneson > > > IMHO computers cannot be conscious, or have intuition, > since these require the ability to sense and handle qualitative > signals-such as seeing colors as colors, not light frequencies- > I'm not even sure you could call that information, > perhaps recognition would be a better word. > > > > Roger , rclo...@verizon.net > 8/14/2012 > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* Brian Tenneson <tenn...@gmail.com> > *Receiver:* everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> > *Time:* 2012-08-12, 13:52:51 > *Subject:* Re: Words vs experience > > > This is already a consequence of computer science. All sound machines >> looking inward, or doing self-reference, cannot avoid the discovery between >> what they can justify with words, and what they can intuit as truth.� >> >> What do justify and intuit mean? > There are some machines out there that do not believe intuiting the truth > exists; for them, if it is not justified they do not believe. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
