From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 04:02:13 MST
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 02:02:41 -0500
"Yan King Yin" <y.k.y@lycos.com> wrote:
>
> I think David Chalmers and some other philosophers
> have got it right already, it's called functionalism.
> Basically any structure with information-processing
> abilities will generate qualia, and the qualia is
> *independent* of space-scale, time-scale, and
> substrate. It could be neurons, silicon, it could be
> intergalactic (if you can muster up so much energy),
> it could execute only 1 instruction per a million year.
>
So my PDA "generates qualia"? Is that the same as experiencing qualia or is it some other thing? This wonderful replacement for "ether" permeates all objects, organizations of matter/energy and all their known and most remotely possible interactions. I wonder exactly what good such a universally assumed something is.
If rocks have qualia then it is to be assumed that the moral will need be responsible for keeping rocks maximally happy. <sigh>
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