On 4/16/2019 11:55 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
1) They are just ideas. Like the idea of "planet Vulcan" that
disappeared when the set of ideas that gave birth to it have been
replaced with other set of ideas. In the future, the idea of "dark
matter" will also disappear when the set of ideas "General Relativity"
will be replaced by other set of ideas. What remains constant in all
these changes is the consciousnesses that have the ideas.
Maybe you are referring to the fact that we have no absolute free
will. And this is certainly true. We don't know what makes us
experience certain qualia and not others. I don't have the ability to
choose to imagine a new color. And this is indeed a problem that needs
to be solved.
2) Learning is a property of consciousness. So no, robots don't learn
anything, in the same way that if I step in the mud, mud doesn't
"learn" the shape of my foot.
Sometimes you say there is no magic involved in your theory. But then
you insist that only you are conscious. Nothing that is not shaped like
Visan, perhaps nothing else at all, can be conscious. Why? Magic.
Brent
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