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I strongly suspect that I can dramatically affect or entirely 'turn off' your experience of qualia through purely physical means, so I think your objection is m
by kybernetikos 9y ago
I strongly suspect that I can dramatically affect or entirely 'turn off' your experience of qualia through purely physical means, so I think your objection is much more to do with your skepticism that mathematical or computational processes can generate physical processes than anything to do with qualia.
Of course, you only have to have a virtual object thrown at your head in VR to discover that your brain will mistake computational processes for physical ones rather easily.
- westoncb 9y agoYour brain doesn't experience computational processes any more directly through VR: VR works by sending controlled physical sensations to your senses using the same routes as when you ordinarily interact with the world.
- kybernetikos 9y agoSure, but your brain mistakes lights flashing according to a computational process for light flashing according to a physical process. It's not an argument that you are directly experiencing maths, just an example of how easily our brains can get maths and physics mixed up with the hint of a suggestion that if it's so easy, then perhaps there's not as big a distinction as we might think.