I think qualia is rescuable, in a sense, and my specific view is that they exist as a high-level model.
As far as what that qualia is, I think it’s basically an application of modeling the world in order to control something, and thus qualia, broadly speaking is your self-model.
As far as my exact views on qualia, the links below are helpful:
My general answer to these question is probably computation/programs/mathematics, with the caveat that these notions are very general, and thus don’t explain anything specific about our world.
I personally agree with this on what counts as real:
If you believe math is fundamental, what distinguishes this particular mathematical universe from other ones; what qualifies this world as “real”, if anything; what ‘breathes fire into the equations and creates a world for them to describe’?
(Commentary: one self-consistent position answers “nothing”—that this world is just one of the infinitely many possible mathematical functions / programs. That ‘real’ secretly means ‘the program(s?) we are part of’. Though I observe this position to be rare; most have a strong intuition that there is something which “makes reality real”.)
What breathes fire into the equations of our specific world is either an infinity of computational resources, or a very large amount of computational resources.
As far as what mathematics is, I definitely like the game analogy where we agree to play a game according to specified rules, though another way to describe mathematics is as a way to generalize all of the situations you encounter and abstract from specific detail, and it is also used to define what something is.
Alright, I’ll try to answer the questions:
I think qualia is rescuable, in a sense, and my specific view is that they exist as a high-level model.
As far as what that qualia is, I think it’s basically an application of modeling the world in order to control something, and thus qualia, broadly speaking is your self-model.
As far as my exact views on qualia, the links below are helpful:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FQhtpHFiPacG3KrvD/seth-explains-consciousness#7ncCBPLcCwpRYdXuG
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMwGKTBZ9sTM4Morx/linkpost-a-conceptual-framework-for-consciousness
My general answer to these question is probably computation/programs/mathematics, with the caveat that these notions are very general, and thus don’t explain anything specific about our world.
I personally agree with this on what counts as real:
What breathes fire into the equations of our specific world is either an infinity of computational resources, or a very large amount of computational resources.
As far as what mathematics is, I definitely like the game analogy where we agree to play a game according to specified rules, though another way to describe mathematics is as a way to generalize all of the situations you encounter and abstract from specific detail, and it is also used to define what something is.