RE: What if qualia are noncomputable and necessary?

From: Ben Houston (ben@exocortex.org)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 07:28:26 MDT


Qualia in my opinion is just a quirk of our sensory mechanisms and our
limited introspection ability. I think it is as computable as most other
brain qualities and thus this discussion is not interesting to me.

This isn't to rule out a role for quantum computation in the brain but to
say that it is not uniquely necessary in the phenomena of qualia.

An interesting page on Qualia:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/

Cheers,
-ben houston
http://www.exocortex.org/~ben



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