If you are a deterministic algorithm, there is only one thing you can ever do at any point in time because that’s what deterministic means.
If you are a functional-preserving variation of a deterministic algorithm, you will detrministically do the same thing...produce the same output for a given input …because that’s what function preserving means.
So if the unmodified you answers “yes” to “do I have qualia”, the modified version will, whether it has them or not.
There’s no ghost in the machine that’s capable of noticing the change and taking over the vocal chords.
If you’re not an algorithm, no one could make a functional duplicate.
So if the unmodified you answers “yes” to “do I have qualia”, the modified version will, whether it has them or not.
My point is that such a modification that preserves behavior but removes qualia is impossible-in-principle. So we don’t need to consider what such a version would say, since such a version can’t exist in the first place.
What’s the difference between your brain and you?
If you are a deterministic algorithm, there is only one thing you can ever do at any point in time because that’s what deterministic means.
If you are a functional-preserving variation of a deterministic algorithm, you will detrministically do the same thing...produce the same output for a given input …because that’s what function preserving means.
So if the unmodified you answers “yes” to “do I have qualia”, the modified version will, whether it has them or not.
There’s no ghost in the machine that’s capable of noticing the change and taking over the vocal chords.
If you’re not an algorithm, no one could make a functional duplicate.
My point is that such a modification that preserves behavior but removes qualia is impossible-in-principle. So we don’t need to consider what such a version would say, since such a version can’t exist in the first place.