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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI
Message-ID: <1992Feb6.184407.9470@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: consciousness,functionalism
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Feb4.043521.11469@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Feb4.145530.1306@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Feb6.182526.5764@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 18:44:07 GMT

In article <1992Feb6.182526.5764@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
>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.
>
I think Antun has confused knoledge with its demonstration. Certainly its
at least conceivable that I can have knowledge that I can't prove to
someone else (e.g., trying to describe red to the blind, etc.) Michael
cannot prove his qualia to you, but that in no way undercuts his own
knowledge of it. 

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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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