To be fair, I see where you’re coming from. It does seem intuitive that if we swapped the feelings of pain and pleasure, the system could simply relea...
Apologies, slowly replying to comments. So what I mean is, to say that an experience “mirrors” or “matches” physical and functional organization means...
Honestly, I'd agree with this. Any philosophy that distinguishes between matter and mind, would also likely assume some form of mapping between them. ...
Hi, thanks so much for your reply — you've given me a lot to think about. I really appreciated the connection you drew between Plato’s lyre argument i...
Hi all, just to let you know I'll reply later individually to your comments. You've given me a lot of thinking/reading to do! Especially @"Count Timot...
Well, I'm a physicist so I'm going to be biased toward the physicalist/materialist PoVs. I tend to think that property dualism explains things reasona...
It's basically based on the premise that if two systems have the same outputs for all inputs, they are functionally the same system. If an AI has the ...
It's true that we cannot directly observe consciousness, so there will never be any 100% certainty that an AI (or even another human) is conscious. Ho...
Some say there's a set of mathematical laws governing the universe. The system of mathematics, as Godel's theorems show, has no finite, consistent set...
Here, I was conjecturing that if consciousness can effect the physical activity of the brain, then since the brain is a physical object, consciousness...
Follow up thought: It seems strange that if indeed the brains activity were regulated without regard to what enters our consciousness, why everything ...
What I would say is that the party analogy is based on the assumption that other people exist that will/did show up to the party at some point or anot...
As a physicist myself, this is a very important question, given the amount of emphasis the field places on ‘information’ right now. It seems to be tre...
I think the main argument I'd use against the recurrence conjecture is that if the universe was truly repetitive, then surely we would be far more lik...
I think there obviously needs to be a distinction made between "life" and "something that is conscious". Most agree that there will be life that isn't...
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