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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI
Message-ID: <1992Feb6.182526.5764@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: consciousness,functionalism
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Feb4.035646.11687@cs.yale.edu> <1992Feb4.043521.11469@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Feb4.145530.1306@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 18:25:26 GMT

In article <1992Feb4.145530.1306@ccu.umanitoba.ca> zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:

>Are you saying that you 'know' you have qualia (or whatever)?
>Then please tell me if I have qualia, or better yet show me your qualia!

Yes, I "know" I have qualia.  So did Descartes (you remember the cogito,
right?).  If you honestly believe that you *don't* have certain knowledge
that you have qualia, you must in the grip of ideological psychosis.

- michael



