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Let's take the claim "experience is information" to be true (I've yet to find a reasonable definition of "information", so I agree). Jackson's point here is sp

Let's take the claim "experience is information" to be true (I've yet to find a reasonable definition of "information", so I agree). Jackson's point here is specifically to show that there are at least two kinds of information: physical information, and information that is not physical. Bearing that in mind, what do you mean by: > "Either she has all of the information about it, or she doesn't."

thaumaturgy 12y ago
What I mean is that all information is physical information -- I'm rejecting outright his starting premise, because no amount of research on wavelengths or poetry will excite the exact same neurons in your brain that are excited by actually seeing a color. I suppose that my objection falls under 4.2 in http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/, specifically, metaphysical physicalism: "there are no non-physical individuals, properties or relations and no non-physical facts". What would be a good example of non-physical information?