Okay, so… we can’t make computers that go from red to black, and we can’t ourselves understand what it’s like to go from #FF0000 to #000000, and this means what?
To me it means the things we use to do processing are very different. Say, a whole brain emulation would have our experience of color, and if we get really really good at cognitive surgery, we might be able to extract the minimum necessary bits to contain that experience of color, and bolt it onto a red-eye filter. Why bother, though? What’s the relevant difference?
I don’t see how a wodge of bits, in isolation from context, could be said to “contain” anything processing, let alone anything depending on actual physics. It;s hard to see how it could even contain any definite meaning, absent context. What does 100110001011101 mean?
Say, a whole brain emulation would have our experience of color, and if we get really really good at cognitive surgery, we might be able to extract the minimum necessary bits to contain that experience of color, and bolt it onto a red-eye filter. Why bother, though? What’s the relevant difference?
The point of discussing the engineering of colour qualia is that it relates to the level of understanding of how consciousness works. Emulations bypass the need to understand something in order to duplicate it, and so are
not relevant to the initial claim that the implementation of (colour) qualia is not understood within current science.
Okay, so… we can’t make computers that go from red to black, and we can’t ourselves understand what it’s like to go from #FF0000 to #000000, and this means what?
To me it means the things we use to do processing are very different. Say, a whole brain emulation would have our experience of color, and if we get really really good at cognitive surgery, we might be able to extract the minimum necessary bits to contain that experience of color, and bolt it onto a red-eye filter. Why bother, though? What’s the relevant difference?
I don’t see how a wodge of bits, in isolation from context, could be said to “contain” anything processing, let alone anything depending on actual physics. It;s hard to see how it could even contain any definite meaning, absent context. What does 100110001011101 mean?
Sorry- “minimum necessary (pieces of brain)”, I meant to say. Like, probably not motor control, or language, or maybe memory.
The point of discussing the engineering of colour qualia is that it relates to the level of understanding of how consciousness works. Emulations bypass the need to understand something in order to duplicate it, and so are not relevant to the initial claim that the implementation of (colour) qualia is not understood within current science.