Psy-Kosh comments on ESR's New Take on Qualia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 24 August 2009 11:55:44PM 1 point [-]

Not downvoting you, but the debate isn't about that. It would be more about "even if you knew all the physical facts about the brain, how those things implement the various algorithms the brain implements, etc, would there still be some aspect of redness that 'transcends' that, an epiphenomenon that one needs ADDITIONAL facts to learn about from the outside?" (well, okay, I guess that isn't exactly true of all flavors of dualism... Since the flavors of dualism that have the dual properties actually have physical effects and so on would be a bit different, but then arguably one could even rephrase that sort of belief so that it's not even a form of dualism anymore, or becomes an epiphenomena style of dualism)

Comment author: byrnema 25 August 2009 03:02:09AM 0 points [-]

What you've described is consistent with what I find on the internet and what s being discussed on this thread. I just thought there might be more to it..