Your brain assumes that you have qualia
Actually, currently my brain isn’t particularly interested in the concepts some people call “qualia”; it certainly doesn’t assume it has them. If you got the idea that it did because of discussions it participated in in the past, please update your cache: This doesn’t hold for my present-brain.
If qualia-concepts are shown in some point in the future to be useful in understanding the real world, i.e. specify a compact border around a high-density region of thingspace, my brain will likely become interested in them when that happens. However, this will necessarily mean that they’re shown to refer to things that are actually measurable. Possibly clusters of atoms, but many kinds of exotic physical entites postulated by substance dualists would also work.
As Eliezer Yudkowsky mentioned, epiphenomenalism includes parts in a prediction program which are known to be dead code. That dead code won’t ever interest my brain, except possibly to figure out where exactly the design fault in the human brain which causes some people to become epiphenomenalists is.
Your brain assumes that you have qualia Actually, currently my brain isn’t particularly interested in the concepts some people call “qualia”; it certainly doesn’t assume it has them. If you got the idea that it did because of discussions it participated in in the past, please update your cache: This doesn’t hold for my present-brain.
If qualia-concepts are shown in some point in the future to be useful in understanding the real world, i.e. specify a compact border around a high-density region of thingspace, my brain will likely become interested in them when that happens. However, this will necessarily mean that they’re shown to refer to things that are actually measurable. Possibly clusters of atoms, but many kinds of exotic physical entites postulated by substance dualists would also work.
As Eliezer Yudkowsky mentioned, epiphenomenalism includes parts in a prediction program which are known to be dead code. That dead code won’t ever interest my brain, except possibly to figure out where exactly the design fault in the human brain which causes some people to become epiphenomenalists is.