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Comment author: 27chaos 03 March 2015 01:56:48AM 0 points [-]

Note that we could also ask: "Is there a general principle to be found with regard to which patterns within conscious systems innately feel like smelling a rose, or isn't there?" We could build rose smell detecting machines in various ways. How can you say that one is really having the experience of smelling it while another isn't?

Thanks, that's exactly what I was trying to say!