Peterdjones comments on Three consistent positions for computationalists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 15 April 2011 07:53:57PM 0 points [-]

You're sensitive. If they were, that would be a broad similarity

Comment author: Perplexed 15 April 2011 07:59:27PM *  1 point [-]

Even if their sensitivity were perfectly well understood in terms of geochemical cause and effect? Understood well enough to simulate? A simulation that could be connected to actuators that would act in my interests (assuming I reciprocated)? Great. Then we are in agreement. There is nothing mysterious or unsimulatable about qualia.