It feels like sweetness from the inside: this is the region of qualiaspace that corresponds to feeling a motivation to act on that means-ends link.
This is good, but
It does not feel like quickly gathering energy.
is still hiding some confusion (in me, anyway.) Why say that it doesn’t feel like quickly gathering energy? What would feel like quickly gathering energy?
I’m now imagining a sucking-in-lines-qualia, (warning tvtropes) lurking in a region of qualia-space only accessible to sentient energy weaponry. And I’m kinda jealous.
is still hiding some confusion (in me, anyway.) Why say that it doesn’t feel like quickly gathering energy?
Getting a nutrient feed via IV doesn’t feel like sweetness, but does involve quickly getting energy.
What would feel like quickly gathering energy?
If you had a cognitive system that directly recognized any gain in energy, and credited it as good, for that reason, then you would have a quale that is best described as “feeling like gathering energy”. But that requires a whole different architecture.
This is good, but
is still hiding some confusion (in me, anyway.) Why say that it doesn’t feel like quickly gathering energy? What would feel like quickly gathering energy?
I’m now imagining a sucking-in-lines-qualia, (warning tvtropes) lurking in a region of qualia-space only accessible to sentient energy weaponry. And I’m kinda jealous.
Getting a nutrient feed via IV doesn’t feel like sweetness, but does involve quickly getting energy.
If you had a cognitive system that directly recognized any gain in energy, and credited it as good, for that reason, then you would have a quale that is best described as “feeling like gathering energy”. But that requires a whole different architecture.