There is the difficult edge case when the systems are connected but they don’t need the connection to function. Separated or fused the outcome of the data processing is going to be the same in the subsection thought experiment. If the gate is open and individual electrons are free to go on either edge of the wire it could be seen as similar to having software separation within one hardware. Its not their influence on each other would be impossible but they just in fact don’t. If you merely change what is possible but what they infact end up doing remains same it would be pretty strange if that changed the number of awarenesses.
I seem to be getting ther vibe that you believe that awareness is singular in the sense that you either have it or don’t and you can’t have it fragment into pieces.
I am thinking waht kind of information processing good awareness in your opinion. Some times organizations get some task that is infact been carried out by small teams. When those teams undercommmunicate misunderstandings can happen. In a good team there is sufficient communication that what is going to happen is common knowledge to the point atleast that no contradictory plans exist within different team members. In a shattered corporation there is no “corporation official line” while in a well coordinated corporation there migth be one even if it is more narrow than any one members full opinion. While the awareness of individual team members is pretty plain can the corporation become separately aware from its members? With the brain the puzzle is kinda similar but instead the pieces are pretty plainly not aware.
It does seem to me that you chase the awareness into the unknown black box. In the corporation metaphor the CEOs awareness counts as the corporations awareness to the extent there is point to discuss about it. However in the “unaware pieces” picture this would lead into some version of panpsychism (or some kind of more less symmetrical version where there is a distinquished ontological class that has awareness as an elementary property)
There is the difficult edge case when the systems are connected but they don’t need the connection to function. Separated or fused the outcome of the data processing is going to be the same in the subsection thought experiment. If the gate is open and individual electrons are free to go on either edge of the wire it could be seen as similar to having software separation within one hardware. Its not their influence on each other would be impossible but they just in fact don’t. If you merely change what is possible but what they infact end up doing remains same it would be pretty strange if that changed the number of awarenesses.
I seem to be getting ther vibe that you believe that awareness is singular in the sense that you either have it or don’t and you can’t have it fragment into pieces.
I am thinking waht kind of information processing good awareness in your opinion. Some times organizations get some task that is infact been carried out by small teams. When those teams undercommmunicate misunderstandings can happen. In a good team there is sufficient communication that what is going to happen is common knowledge to the point atleast that no contradictory plans exist within different team members. In a shattered corporation there is no “corporation official line” while in a well coordinated corporation there migth be one even if it is more narrow than any one members full opinion. While the awareness of individual team members is pretty plain can the corporation become separately aware from its members? With the brain the puzzle is kinda similar but instead the pieces are pretty plainly not aware.
It does seem to me that you chase the awareness into the unknown black box. In the corporation metaphor the CEOs awareness counts as the corporations awareness to the extent there is point to discuss about it. However in the “unaware pieces” picture this would lead into some version of panpsychism (or some kind of more less symmetrical version where there is a distinquished ontological class that has awareness as an elementary property)