On 5 October 2013 12:53, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/4/2013 7:18 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > I > > On Friday, October 4, 2013, meekerdb wrote: >> >> On 10/3/2013 5:07 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> You seem to be agreeing with Craig that each neuron alone is conscious. >> >> The experiment relates to replacement of neurons which play some part >> in consciousness. The 1% remaining neurons are part of a system which >> will notice that the qualia are different. >> >> >> That assumes that 1% are sufficient to remember all the prior qualia with >> enough fidelity to notice they are different. > > > No, I assume the system of which the neurons are a part will notice a > difference. If not, then the replacement has not changed the qualia. > > > I don't understand that. If the system can notice a difference, why does it > need that 1%? Why can't it detect a difference with 0% of the original > remaining? What's the 1% doing?
The question is whether swapping out part of the system for a functional equivalent will change the qualia the system experiences without changing the behaviour. I don't think this is possible, for if the qualia change the subject would (at least) notice and say that the qualia have changed, which constitutes a change in behaviour. Therefore, the qualia and the behaviour are somehow inextricably linked. The alternative, that the qualia are substrate dependent, can't work. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
