If there was a Dumb Non-Experiencing Robot in the frame, and it had some sort of vision system going, presumably it would be able to find the pole, right?
Although Randall might be saying that all perceptions are subjective ones, and that it's silly to only think of "qualia" as such?
When I think of qualia, I think more about taste and smell and touch. Like, there's the smell of an orange, and you know it (and "what it's like"), but you can't really communicate it, and if you had a smellerometer reading, it wouldn't be the same experience. The quale is like the missing bit between the smellerometer output and the smelling-the-orange itself. It's that inward "oh, I see the color red" as opposed to "this light right here has a wavelength of 650 nm".
"At least, I think I'm having a subjective conscious experience", said the automaton.
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Date: 2006-11-06 05:06 am (UTC)If there was a Dumb Non-Experiencing Robot in the frame, and it had some sort of vision system going, presumably it would be able to find the pole, right?
Although Randall might be saying that all perceptions are subjective ones, and that it's silly to only think of "qualia" as such?
When I think of qualia, I think more about taste and smell and touch. Like, there's the smell of an orange, and you know it (and "what it's like"), but you can't really communicate it, and if you had a smellerometer reading, it wouldn't be the same experience. The quale is like the missing bit between the smellerometer output and the smelling-the-orange itself. It's that inward "oh, I see the color red" as opposed to "this light right here has a wavelength of 650 nm".
"At least, I think I'm having a subjective conscious experience", said the automaton.