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If I said yes, how would you prove me wrong?
by simondw 6y ago
If I said yes, how would you prove me wrong?
- yters 6y agoDo my thoughts have feelings? If I imagine someone being torture to death, has someone actually just been tortured to death, all the while feeling excruciating pain? Crazy implications if true!
- type0 6y agoIf you see someone tortured to death, your mirror neuron might experience torture, so does it mean it that a neuron has feelings? Off course not, you're more than the parts of yourself.
- simondw 6y ago> has someone actually just been tortured to death I can't rule out the possibility that there are some qualia associated specifically with the neuronal activity corresponding to your mental simulation, but I can say that the leap to the "someone actually being tortured" interpretation isn't warranted. It's clearly not a "someone" in the sense of a human person, and so all bets are off when it comes to interpreting what it's like to be that thing. > Crazy implications if true! Well, the implications are most likely delayed until someone invents a qualia detector.
- yters 6y agoWhoa, even trippier, things don't exist until we detect them! That is quantum physics uncertainty taken to a whole new level!
- simondw 6y agoWhen did I say that?
- yters 6y agoI thought that's what you meant by this. > Crazy implications if true! Well, the implications are most likely delayed until someone invents a qualia detector
- simondw 6y agoOh. I meant that we can't run this code: if (yourCondition) { crazyImplications() } until we know the truth value of yourCondition.
- yters 6y agoI see, but if the condition is true, won't crazyImplications() run regardless of whether we know the truth value of the condition? I am assuming the conditional logic is running in reality instead of in my head.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIf it said yes, how would you prove it wrong? How convincing must the on-screen suffering become for us to start wondering whether there is something there that actually feels pain?