>My hypothesis is that to create a machine that experiences qualia, we will first understand the mechanism behind our own experience of qualia, and then reprodu

>My hypothesis is that to create a machine that experiences qualia, we will first understand the mechanism behind our own experience of qualia, and then reproduce that mechanism in a machine. From my experience with machine learning I think that we (humans) dont need to understand a problem to be able to build a tool (AI) which can solve that problem. The necessity of understanding problems in order to solve them is obsolete :-P