>If our experiences are purely an informational process
Well, that might be true, but it's hard to prove because we don't have direct access to other entity's experiences ... or access to pure information that exists without a material substrate. It's suggestive that an information space has the same structure as a qualia space, but predicting that an information space would necessarily feel like qualia from the inside is a taller order.
>I think a consciousness simulated on a rock computer would actually be conscious and have subjective experiences. This still sounds ludicrous, but now I think I can see in what sense this would actually be true. A simulated experience is real because its informational underpinnings are real.
But what does the information mean? What does 100101010001110001 mean? Well, many people would say that the meaning comes from.some physical connectivity...but then the meaning isn't in the pure information.
I'm reading Hofstadter right now, and now he seems to pop up all the time. Enjoyed seeing lots of ideas I've seen elsewhere put together
philosophy is just a bland form of mythology: boring metaphors, lots of boring words
>If our experiences are purely an informational process
Well, that might be true, but it's hard to prove because we don't have direct access to other entity's experiences ... or access to pure information that exists without a material substrate. It's suggestive that an information space has the same structure as a qualia space, but predicting that an information space would necessarily feel like qualia from the inside is a taller order.
>I think a consciousness simulated on a rock computer would actually be conscious and have subjective experiences. This still sounds ludicrous, but now I think I can see in what sense this would actually be true. A simulated experience is real because its informational underpinnings are real.
But what does the information mean? What does 100101010001110001 mean? Well, many people would say that the meaning comes from.some physical connectivity...but then the meaning isn't in the pure information.