Worries about zombies is a vestige of the Christian idea of a soul. — Jackson
We love people we do not have a "connection" with e.g. celebrities, authors, leaders, the dead, etc. We also love inanimate or abstract objects e.g. stuffed animals, our country / city, our sports team, vehicles, cultural objects, power, wealth, etc. Love is a highly emotional attachment to someone/thing with or without "connection".Doesn't love require connection? How can you connect with someone you know isn't there? — hypericin
"Sentience" may be epiphenomenal and serve no more of a function than color-sightedness.Why the scare quotes?
"Sentience" may be epiphenomenal and serve no more of a function than color-sightedness. — 180 Proof
Would you continue the relationship, and treat this finding as permission to give full vent to your most sadistic, narcissistic fantasies? (Polls are anonymous) — hypericin
We love people we do not have a "connection" with e.g. celebrities, authors, leaders, the dead, etc. We also love inanimate or abstract objects e.g. stuffed animals, our country / city, our sports team, vehicles, cultural objects, power, wealth, etc — 180 Proof
"Sentience" may be epiphenomenal and serve no more of a function than color-sightedness. — 180 Proof
betrays my intuition and experience — NOS4A2
That doesn’t make it true, either. Your stipulation is just that, a stipulation, like they stipulated phlogiston or a pantheon of gods. — NOS4A2
In my imaginary scenario I have the power to stipulate whatever I wish. — hypericin
That basic awareness should be absent while memory and identification is fully functional simply makes no sense to me. — unenlightened
You mean qualia? Because "awareness" or "self reports" are not considered consciousness by philosophers like chalmers, since they can be defined in purely functional terms, and implemented in robots or code. It's the sensations of colors, pains, emotions that make up consciousness. And those aren't functional. — Marchesk
I can't make sense of quaila either. Never knowingly had one. Am I a zombie? — unenlightened
But I never experience red - I see red flowers and postboxes and swatches on paint charts. — unenlightened
It seems odd to say I am having or not having an experience. — unenlightened
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