On Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 2:39:29 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 5/18/2019 6:37 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > *A simulated human brain could describe it's back pain in every detail, > write whole paragraphs about what it's like, while according to the theory > of substrate dependence, it knows nothing of what it's writing about. Where > then does this knowledge if pain come from when the AI writes a page about > the back pain it is in?* > > > > A simulated human brain could read the Wikipedia article on pain [ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain ] and integrate this knowledge into > its knowledge base, but it could not experience pain. > > > How do you know this so-called fact? > > Brent >
My main point is that those who say it can (I say it can't) can't talk about telepathy, precognition, astral projection etc. being crazy. @philipthrift -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d5c3507b-33e6-4b20-886c-4d11c1428399%40googlegroups.com.
