From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 19 1999 - 22:04:41 MST
'What is your name?' 'hal@finney.org.' 'Do you deny having written the
following?':
> How would we approach the problem of whether our guts have qualia? And
> if they did, who would "I" be? Would I have two minds, or would I be
> my brain and my gut would be someone else?
There's a Really Easy Answer to this question. (Maybe it's just easy for
us zombies, however.)
> How about Dennett, what does he say about the question of whether systems
> like the gut are conscious and/or have qualia? Is this a meaningful
> question in his ontology?
Uhm, no. :) He doesn't even think BRAINS have qualia, and while I've
never seen him discuss the question of whether other things which aren't
brains have qualia, I'd have to assume that he'd give a thumbs-down to
guts-with-qualia.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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