The idea goes that even if you explained how the brain does everything it does, you haven’t explained why this doing is accompanied by subjective experience. It’s rooted in this idea that subjective experience is somehow completely isolated from, and separate to behavior.
This supposed isolation is already a little suspicious to me.
I’m not sure that this “isolation” exists, either.
I think this idea is useful because it asks...how might you explain to a computer what makes ants different from people, or computers different from ants and people, or how anesthetic works? What is joy?
Or how could we tell if robots/aliens have subjective experience?
What if when we looked at the sky, and the ocean, we both used the English word “Blue”, but you experienced what I experience when I look at what we both agree is called “Green”?
Related question: Do variations between individuals in terms of eyes have effects, beyond colorblind versus not?
I’m not sure that this “isolation” exists, either.
I think this idea is useful because it asks...how might you explain to a computer what makes ants different from people, or computers different from ants and people, or how anesthetic works? What is joy?
Or how could we tell if robots/aliens have subjective experience?
Related question: Do variations between individuals in terms of eyes have effects, beyond colorblind versus not?