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> it doesn't say why a camera responding to a 550 nm photon isn't seeing red when your retina is. It isn't your retina 'seeing' red. The retina is just transl
by kaibee 2y ago
> it doesn't say why a camera responding to a 550 nm photon isn't seeing red when your retina is.
It isn't your retina 'seeing' red. The retina is just translating it to the rest of the brain. When we replace eyes with silicon-based cameras (poorly, not in color, low resolution, but still) the patient experiences seeing again. Or going the other way, when you have a dream and see something red in that dream, you experience* (or at least, you have the memory of experiencing it) the qualia despite having your eyes closed and being asleep.
- ben_w 2y agoDreams being experience without direct physical input is an equally valid criticism of the article from the opposite direction — the possibility of an LLM (or indeed an image generator) having the qualia of an experience without ever having really experienced any such thing, just as the other night I had a dream about having 5 rows of extremely brittle and hollow teeth. (Or 10 years back, a dream where I saw the whole universe from the outside).