Brandt: “what is the functional role and underlying mechanism of qualia in the timeless mathematical structure of the multiverse.”
Doesn’t this question imply that you believe qualia has a purpose? Isn’t this a bit mystic? We know evolutions are stupid and goal-less...
″ And what is the minimal structure required for qualia.”
Isn’t this unknowable, given that the only way to really determine ‘qualia’ proper is to experience it? Read anti-zombie posts. Do you think an insect has qualia? What about a paramecium? It’s a pretty intelligent little cell...
I also agree that it’s pretty amazing that the universe seems intuitable AT ALL, and this might be the result of evolutions and their goal-less drives… If so… OH WELL! Lets have a good time. What’s also strange is how other people’s minds seem intuitable if you know certain essential information about them… Also strange that the minds of some animals are intuitable (ie I think I know my cat pretty well). However, that anything is understandable might just be because we live in a universe that we are capable of understanding. It’s similar to the question, ‘If life is so unlikely to occur randomly, then why do we exist?’ Well…
“If a universe capable of being comprehended by a mind, and a mind capable of understanding a universe are so unlikely to occur randomly, then why do they exist?” Tah Dah! Well… here we are. Or I might just be a bolzman brain. Go me!
Brandt: “what is the functional role and underlying mechanism of qualia in the timeless mathematical structure of the multiverse.”
Doesn’t this question imply that you believe qualia has a purpose? Isn’t this a bit mystic? We know evolutions are stupid and goal-less...
″ And what is the minimal structure required for qualia.” Isn’t this unknowable, given that the only way to really determine ‘qualia’ proper is to experience it? Read anti-zombie posts. Do you think an insect has qualia? What about a paramecium? It’s a pretty intelligent little cell...
I also agree that it’s pretty amazing that the universe seems intuitable AT ALL, and this might be the result of evolutions and their goal-less drives… If so… OH WELL! Lets have a good time. What’s also strange is how other people’s minds seem intuitable if you know certain essential information about them… Also strange that the minds of some animals are intuitable (ie I think I know my cat pretty well). However, that anything is understandable might just be because we live in a universe that we are capable of understanding. It’s similar to the question, ‘If life is so unlikely to occur randomly, then why do we exist?’ Well… “If a universe capable of being comprehended by a mind, and a mind capable of understanding a universe are so unlikely to occur randomly, then why do they exist?” Tah Dah! Well… here we are. Or I might just be a bolzman brain. Go me!