On 22 February 2014 05:59, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
If we make a bet we can never settle, since the idea is that if the > replacement is technically perfect the subject's behaviour will be > normal, and behaviour includes displays of emotion and verbal > descriptions of internal states. > It would be interesting to speculate what fading qualia would be like in our own case, though. Would we hear ourselves continue to refer to qualia that we no longer possessed? Perhaps that's as near as we can come to a reductio of the whole idea. However, if I've grasped the way comp formulates this, it becomes inconsistent to suspect any correct and truthful machine of referring to qualia that it does not "in fact" possess in some distinct sense. David -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
