On 2 March 2014 16:55, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There is an observable difference in the body with AHS: the subject says >> that it doesn't feel like his hand. > > > They don't have to say anything. They can keep their symptoms to themselves > if they want.
So can a blind person pretending to be able to see. The point is there is a *functional* difference because the behaviour is different. If there is no behavioural difference whatsoever then there is no disorder. >> This happens because the neural circuits between the hand and the language >> centres are disrupted. If they were not disrupted the language centres would >> get normal input and the subject would say everything was normal. > > > It doesn't matter why it happens, it matters that it cannot happen under > functionalism in the first place. By definition, consciousness is deflated > to the sum of a set of functions. The quality of inclusion or exclusion from > that set is simply a matter of fact, not a separate consideration. A program > can't decide that part of itself has a quality of not being itself. That has > no meaning to the function of the program. If the code works, then it is > part of the program, period. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work, but > there is no language under functionalism to make that dysfunction related to > what amounts to the loss of soul. You can write a program that considers the right hand self and the left hand non-self, with the consequence that the right hand will be favoured if both hands are at risk of being lost, or whatever else you want to make "non-self" mean. -- 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 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.
