Nominull comments on Outline of a lower bound for consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nominull 13 January 2010 09:00:53AM 1 point [-]

How can one grounding be falsifiable and another not, and the two groundings still be entirely indistinguishable? If there is a difference, shouldn't there be some difference? How would they flicker back and forth, as you say, like a Necker cube? Wouldn't there be some truth of the matter?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 January 2010 03:11:57PM 0 points [-]

I don't think they can. I wanted to accommodate people who believe that qualia are part of groundings, and that you would have a different grounding if you swapped the experience of blue with the experience of red, rather than argue about it.