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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Functionalist Theory of Qualia
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Date: 10 Feb 92 19:23:10 GMT
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In article <jbaxter.697533284@adelphi> jbaxter@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Jon Baxter) writes:
>David Chalmers has argued pretty convincingly for the existence of qualia in
>far simpler things than brains, things as simple even as electrons absorbing
>photons.

He has?  Where?  The argument I get from him is that if I say there
aren't qualia in such things I must be suffering from a failure of
the imagination.  That may be an argument, but it's not a very
convincing one.

>David seems to see qualia wherever there is "information processing
>of the right kind".

_That_ may well be reasonable, but his notion of "the right kind"
has it occuring in thermostats.


