TheOtherDave comments on The raw-experience dogma: Dissolving the “qualia” problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 September 2012 07:22:20PM 0 points [-]

If you mean this... to be clear, I didn't complain about it not demonstrating "qualia sameness". I complained (implicitly) that the claim that it demonstrated all the properties that some people claim demonstrate qualia in real-world systems (like people) was demonstrably false.

(In particular, that it didn't demonstrate anything persistent across different reporting, whereas my own experience does demonstrate something persistent across different reporting.)

I agree that actually recoding it to demonstrate such persistence is a waste of time; far simpler is to not make such over-reaching claims.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2012 07:26:14PM 0 points [-]

I removed "complained".

I agree that actually recoding it to demonstrate such persistence is a waste of time; far simpler is to not make such over-reaching claims.

Point taken. As I tried to explain somewhere, it was all the properties that I thought of at the moment, with the implicit assertion that the rest of the properties could be demonstrated as required.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 September 2012 07:27:56PM 0 points [-]

Point taken.