> In the same sense I don't think "machine x does y" expresses fewer facts than "machine x does y, and it is conscious". brings to mind behaviorism, which was

> In the same sense I don't think "machine x does y" expresses fewer facts than "machine x does y, and it is conscious". brings to mind behaviorism, which was of course influential and compelling for a long time. The problem with behaviorism, if you want just one problem, is how do you even talk about something like Synesthesia within behaviorism? It's (initially) a purely subjective/qualia related experience. While behaviorism was in vogue, it was difficult to take Synesthesia seriously and it was dismissed as people being poetic and metaphorical, but those who experienced grapheme-color synaesthasia could see shapes present in a number-pattern readily that those without it could not see.