Steve said, "I STRONGLY suspect that what we perceive as consciousness
isn't anything at all like what is really happening. Specifically, a
massively parallel process comes to a decision, but all we perceive is
the single tiny thread that succeeded in intersecting with one
possible solution, while
Jim,
There are several potential interpretations of this, with Rob's being but
one (or just a few).
Continuing...
On 6:07PM, Tue, Sep 18, 2018 Jim Bromer via AGI
wrote:
>
> I already regret asking these questions, but do you truly (really -
> honestly) believe that:
> Conscious Experience or sou
> I already regret asking these questions,
Why would you regret that? Best questions ever :)
> but do you truly (really - honestly) believe that:
> Conscious Experience or soul or Qualia or the experience of being (or
whatever you want to call it)
Interesting words. Never heard "Qualia" before.
> -Original Message-
> From: Matt Mahoney via AGI
>
> What do you think qualia is? How would you know if something was
> experiencing it?
>
You could look at qualia from a multi-systems signaling and a compressionist
standpoint. They're compressed impressed samples of the environment a
Human existence on earth left overwhelming evidence of such a conscious
experience. Correlated writings over the ages being one such an example of an
expression of consciousness. It has not manifested in other, earthly species.
Second, the focus in soft-systems engineering is to capture the abst
