On 10/16/2018 11:58 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 1:01:40 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 10/16/2018 1:14 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:But here is the thesis I think of the experience-oriented (vs. information-oriented) paradigm*: /Experience cannot be represented: It does not exist outside of its material instantiation./But that's just an assertion that, not only am I giving up, but you must give up too. I'm defining "the hard problem" to be "the impossible problem". Most things don't exist outside of their material instantiation, including intelligence. BrentWith *representationalism*, one can run "intelligent" software on CPUs, GPUs, etc. made of basically any material (as long as the computing structure - "Turing-equivalence" - is the same). *Experientialism* (anti-representationalism) says it has to be particular materials [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry ].
I know what it says. You've posted it many times. But I haven't seen any reason to believe it.
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