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Having motivations and having qualia have almost nothing to do with each other. The former just means having a goal system, and I can write an agent that has a
by Sharlin 4y ago
Having motivations and having qualia have almost nothing to do with each other. The former just means having a goal system, and I can write an agent that has a goal system in ten lines of Python.
- version_five 4y agoNo, instructions are not the same as motivations. There needs to be something to be motivated, thus the need for qualia. Defining, say an optimization problem, or any algorithm, has no relation to motivation.
- Sharlin 4y agoYour definition of the word does not agree with how it is commonly understood in psychology. But no matter, this is a question of semantics and thus intrinsically uninteresting. Not to mention the fact that any argument that asserts either the presence or absence of qualia in some system is, as of now, both unverifiable and unfalsifiable and thus without value.