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> If the program was coded to produce subjective feeling How would such a program work? What would it do in order to produce subjective feelings? You do under
by hsn915 5y ago
> If the program was coded to produce subjective feeling
How would such a program work? What would it do in order to produce subjective feelings?
You do understand that you can not just write a program to do some arbitrary X if that's not within the capabilities of the hardware it's running on.
For example, you cannot write a program that would make the laptop fly. You need something that's physically capable of flying that can also be controlled by software. Like a drone or something.
- morpheos137 5y agoOf course I understand that but you seem to be working from an assumption that brains are not sufficient hardware to run consciousness on. I submit Human wetware is a little more sophisiticated than your avant garde binary computer. That does not mean that consciouness is a superanatural or ethereal process not emanating from the brain.
- hsn915 5y ago> you seem to be working from an assumption that brains are not sufficient hardware to run consciousness on I did not make such a statement. I made the point that computers certainly are not. Therefore you cannot reduce consciousness to information processing. For many reasons, the most important one is that "information processing" can be used to describe the flow of water in pipes, so if you say that is sufficient to produce consciousness then you must say that the sewage system is conscious.