From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 09:41:16 MST
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 07:53:52PM -0600, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> I think qualia are the result of non-Turing-computable processes that we
> probably can't duplicate artificially with today's technology, so why
> bother? I really, really doubt that they're necessary for intelligence.
> The only reason I brought up <qualia> was to emphasize that we don't
> know enough about the Universe to say what can or can't be objectively real.
Excuse me, but I don't understand qualia.
No worries -- it's just that the entity previously referenced as "I" is
not actually conscious.
If you wish to try (via email) to prove that "I" am actually anything
other than a bag of canned responses, please feel free.
-- Charlie "failed Turing-test experiment" Stross
PS: For an encore, please provide a non-circular definition of good and evil.
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