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Consciousness, Dune and Abu Ghraib
- petewarden 17y agoIf you liked this, his SF novel Blindsight digs deep into these questions too, and it's free at: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
- tyn 17y agoAnd what about qualia?
- eggoa 17y agoApparently that is the "hard problem" of conciousness: How does the mind produce concious experience? The topic of this article is the "soft problem": Why is it useful to conciousness at all?
- Ixiaus 17y agoOr, instead of the mind producing conscious experience could conscious experience be mind producing?
- JulianMorrison 17y agoGensyms. Red is ineffable because it's a neuron that flips from nay to yea. Of course nobody can share your experience - they haven't got the neuron that plays the role of "yup, that's red alright". They've got their own.
- billswift 17y agoIf you haven't read it, esr had an interesting take on qualia a while back http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1192#more-1192 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1192#more-1192 . His take is that qualia is the internal feeling of having a particular sensation. That is that the qualia of redness is the feeling that is internally associated with seeing red.
- tyn 17y agoWhat is the purpose of this feeling? There is no obvious evolutionary advantage in "feeling" the red.