Lee Corbin writes:
> > But we *still* don't know what it feels like to *be* the code
> > implemented on a computer.
> > We might be able to guess, perhaps from analogy with our own
> > experience, perhaps by running the code in our head; but once
> > we start doing either of these things, we are replacing the 3rd
> > person perspective with the 1st person.
>
>Yes. Doesn't it seem that you want the impossible? That you want
>to be the code and yet remain someone else?
>
>It seems like only by actually *being* that code---having its
>emotional reactions, its same impressions of everything---can
>you possibly know what it's like... to be the code. This point
>was made by someone here before. Namely, that if *you* become
>a bat in order to learn what it's like to be a bat, then "you"
>aren't you anymore.
I agree with everything you have said. You have to be the code to know what
it is like to be the code. And consciousness is the only thing in the
universe of which this is true.
--Stathis
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Received on Wed May 25 2005 - 07:16:55 PDT