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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Virtual Person?
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Date: 20 Feb 92 10:18:07 GMT
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In article <9202181833.AA12222@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> GUNTHER@WMAVM7.VNET.IBM.COM ("Mike Gunther") writes:
>But I can be a functionalist about behavior without being a
>functionalist about qualia.  Why can't neuron replacement result
>in a behaviorally equivalent simulation?  The simulation would
>continue to natter on about its qualia as if it had some, because
>of the functional equivalence.  But it would not actually have
>any qualia, being only a simulation.

I think qualia resides in the hair.

When people start loosing hair, their qualia fade. The less hair left, the
less qualia. Bald people have no qualia at all. Nothing else is affected,
though. Their behaviour, for example, is not immediately related to qualia.
Behaviour is controlled by the brain, on which the loss of hair of course
doesn't have much of an effect. Thus behaviour is indistinguishable between
people with hair and people without. But I tell you, they do not have qualia.
They just say they have. But that is just meaningless mouth movements. Wigs
don't help, either.

I hope I don't start loosing my hair.

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