> On 14 Apr 2021, at 20:41, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 4/14/2021 3:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 11 Apr 2021, at 20:55, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> 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”.
You are right. I should have made clear, like I just did actually, that the notion of “knowing” was “knowing for sure”. It is more []p & <>t & p than []p & p, although even " []p & <>t & p” might not yet capture completely the “for dure” components. > But clearly we have pretty good ideas about how other people feel simply by > projecting our own feelings while imagining their situation. OK. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9f4dffa0-5b96-9bad-18f5-480205eabbcf%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9f4dffa0-5b96-9bad-18f5-480205eabbcf%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/41F133F0-0AA6-4508-B2FB-BBA22DC515B5%40ulb.ac.be.
