On 4/14/2021 3:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 11 Apr 2021, at 20:55, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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That would be of some interest but I think it would fail to
communicate what it is like to be a bat because of the inability to
act as a bat. I'm not sure your brain could learn to interpret
visual input if it were not able to correlate it with touch and movement.
Added to this is the problem that we cannot know the mechanist
substation level. Some would be OK to simulate only the bat neuronal
system; some would say that we have to simulate also the glial cells,
some would ask for the simulation of the microtubules, etc.
Even one bat cannot know how it feels to be a different bat.
I would agree if you mean "know with certainty". But clearly we have
pretty good ideas about how other people feel simply by projecting our
own feelings while imagining their situation.
Brent
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