Jonathan Colvin wrote:
[quoting Stathis]
> >My curiosity could only be satisfied if I were in fact the
> >duplicated system myself; perhaps this could be achieved if I
> >"became one" with the new system by direct neural interface. I
> >don't have to go to such lengths to learn about the new
> >system's mass, volume, behaviour, or any other property, and
> >in *this* consists the essential difference between 1st person
> >and 3rd person experience. You can minimise it and say it
> >doesn't really make much practical difference, but I don't
> >think you can deny it.
>
>I can deny that there is anything special about it, beyond the difference
>between A): *a description of an apple*; and B): *an apple*. I don't think
>anyone would deny that there is a difference between A and B (even with
>comp
>there is still a difference); but this "essential difference" does not seem
>to have anything in particular to do with qualia or experience.
>
>Jonathan Colvin
Can the description of the apple, or bat, or whatever meaningfully include
what it is like to be that thing?
--Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Thu May 19 2005 - 08:51:26 PDT