torekp comments on Friendly AI and the limits of computational epistemology - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 08 August 2012 01:16PM

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Comment author: torekp 11 August 2012 03:51:03PM 0 points [-]

My position is that a world described in terms of purely physical properties or purely computational properties does not contain qualia. Such a description itself would contain no reference to qualia.

If this is an argument with the second sentence as premise, it's a non sequitur. I can give you a description of the 1000 brightest objects in the night sky without mentioning the Evening Star; but that does not mean that the night sky lacked the Evening Star or that my description was incomplete.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 11 August 2012 04:41:32PM 0 points [-]

The rest of the paragraph covers the case of indirect reference to qualia. It's sketchy because I was outlining an argument rather than making it, if you know what I mean. I had to convey that this is not about "non-computability".