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Article 3638 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Functionalist Theory of Qualia
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Date: 10 Feb 92 22:14:41 GMT
References: <1992Feb6.055620.23808@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Feb7.203648.8033@cs.yale.edu> <1992Feb10.032900.27301@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1992Feb10.032900.27301@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>In article <1992Feb7.203648.8033@cs.yale.edu> mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott) writes:
 >
 >>Besides, the theory does not contradict our experience at all.  It
 >>predicts that our experiences should seem to us exactly as they do,
 >>even after the theory is understood.
 >
 >This is where I disagree, obviously.  You and I both know that this
 >talk of "self-models" and so on is just a shorthand way of talking
 >about certain kinds of behavioural dispositions, complex mechanisms
 >of internal causation, and so on.  If one were to predict a priori
 >what it would feel like to be such a system, there'd be no reason
 >to suppose that it would feel like anything at all.

Wrong. If your self-model says that you feel a certain way, then that IS how
you feel. The a priori prediction of how it would feel to be such a system,
is, by definition, that it would feel the way the self-model says that you
would feel.

(Now, personally, I might tend to add a few different levels in the self-
model, and some mechanisms for direct interaction between some of those
levels with the biological hardware (senses, basic emotion control systems,
hormones, and such), to make it more understandable and believable, but
that should not matter for the simple point above.)

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