PhilGoetz comments on Outline of a lower bound for consciousness - Less Wrong
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So if I understand correctly, your basic claim underlying all of this is that a system can be said not to be conscious if its set of beliefs remains equally valid when you switch the labels on some of the things it has beliefs about. I have a few concerns about this point, which you may have already considered, but which I would like to see addressed explicitly. I will post them as replies to this post.
If I am mischaracterizing your position, please let me know, and then my replies to this post can probably be ignored.
That's how I used to phrase it, but now I would say instead that you switch what the things are mapped to. I think of the labels themselves as qualia, so that switching just the labels would be like switching the experience of "blue" with the experience of "red".