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but the corresponding cluster of neurons in a brain isn't actually wetted by the touched water either.

• coldtea 3y ago
  Yes, but it receives the input from an actual experience of the body it's embodied in - from an actual wet thing. As opposed to being served a simulation of the same. This simulated isolated "brain" is like a heart mechanically assisted to be pounding in a glass jar. Sure, it's still beating, but not as part of its place and environment, in a living being.
  • ChainOfFools 3y ago
    Where would you say experience ends, and qualia begins? The way these words are being used seems to make little distinction between them other than one referring to a specific instance of what the other refers to in generalized terms. As for myself I would argue that an experience, and therefore qualia, amount to an accumulated and generalized succession of multiple sensory inputs amalgamated by feedback and hysteresis over time, and informed by the gross structure and constraints of the sensory apparatus they are carried upon.
    • comfypotato 3y ago
      Not so different a question than asking where “synapses and neurotransmitters” end and the experience of consciousness begins.