Colin Geoffrey Hales wrote:
> >
> Q. What is it like to be a human? It is like being a mind. There is
> information delivered into the mind by the action of brain material which
> bestows on the human intrinsic knowledge about the natural world outside
> the human....in the form of phenomenal consciousness. This knowledge is
> not a model/abstraction, but a literal mapping of what's there (no matter
> how mysterious its generation may seem).
What is the difference between a "model" and a "literal mapping" ?
> The zombie does not have this.
Why not ?
> Nor does the Turing machine.
> No matter how good the a-priori abstraction given by the human the UM will
> do science on its sensory feeds until it can no longer distinguish any
> effect because the senses cannot discriminate it
Don't humans have sensory limits?
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Received on Sat Sep 16 2006 - 12:49:56 PDT