We know that some complex processes in our own brains happen unaccompanied by qualia. This is uncontroversial. It doesn’t seem unlikely to me that all the processes needed to fake perceptual consciousness convincingly could be implemented using a combination of such processes. I don’t know what causes qualia in my brain and so I’m not certain it would be captured by the emulation in question—for example, the emulation might not be at a high enough level of detail, might not exploit quantum mechanics in the appropriate way, or whatever.
Fading and dancing qualia arguments are not really convincing to me because I don’t trust my intuition to guide me well in situations where my core self is directly being operated on. In other words, I am uncertain and so would tend to stick with what I know works (my biological brain) instead of trusting an uploading process to maintain my qualia.
(note: ‘qualia’ may be an unfamiliar term. It means what it is like to experience something, the redness of red. It’s a better word to use than consciousness for this because it is more specific.)
We know that some complex processes in our own brains happen unaccompanied by qualia. This is uncontroversial. It doesn’t seem unlikely to me that all the processes needed to fake perceptual consciousness convincingly could be implemented using a combination of such processes. I don’t know what causes qualia in my brain and so I’m not certain it would be captured by the emulation in question—for example, the emulation might not be at a high enough level of detail, might not exploit quantum mechanics in the appropriate way, or whatever. Fading and dancing qualia arguments are not really convincing to me because I don’t trust my intuition to guide me well in situations where my core self is directly being operated on.
In other words, I am uncertain and so would tend to stick with what I know works (my biological brain) instead of trusting an uploading process to maintain my qualia. (note: ‘qualia’ may be an unfamiliar term. It means what it is like to experience something, the redness of red. It’s a better word to use than consciousness for this because it is more specific.)