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> Sure, you can't look at them and positively measure their identicalness, but they're being generated with the same hardware. But to continue your analogy, af
by messe 3y ago
> Sure, you can't look at them and positively measure their identicalness, but they're being generated with the same hardware.
But to continue your analogy, after so many years of experiencing the world differently—different pasts, upbringings, worldviews—are they being interpreted by the same software? And that's the question that the paper really poses: are qualia real, and if so, is it ever possible to conclude that two individuals experience qualia in the same way?
- The_Colonel 3y agoMy intuition says yes, they are basically perceived the same way. Color recognition is so elementary it seems more hardware-based than software-based. I think there are better examples for the point (which I assume it's trying to make). Take a piece of rock, does it look the same way to different people? (there the answer is IMHO no).
- messe 3y ago> My intuition says yes, they are basically perceived the same way. Color recognition is so elementary it seems more hardware-based than software-based In which case you're missing the point of the fucking example. Colour is just being used as an easily definable (to some extent) sensation. "What is it like to perceive this particular rock" doesn't roll quite off the tongue so well, and intuition is exactly the aspect that this discussion attempts to avoid in order to be as objective as possible with regard to an inherently subjective experience.
- pixl97 3y agoI would assume the answer is probabilistic and likely follows something like a bell curve.