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There seems to be an emerging consensus around an answer to this question in the “ Representational Qualia Theory ” camp. To date, no other camp has achieved anything close to this amount of consensus. It defines consciousness to be: Consciousness is: "Computationally bound elemental intrinsic ...

You can't see what I see because YOU are qualia blind. The proof to me, that you are just yanking my chain, is in the fact that you will refuse to “canonize” any of your claims, to see if anyone other than you, agrees with you. My first prediction is that you will not do this (strong evidence in my...

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE DEFINITIONS OK, that's fine. Subsistence farmers don't need to care about more complex heliocentric model of the soar system. All they need is to know is that the sun comes up in the morning, goes arround them, and sets in the evening. But some of us want to dance in the heav...

[People in a matrix] are recalling the experience of "redness" from their memories. and How is it that the word "redness" triggers the experience of redness if there is no source of light? A bit of a tangent, but your consciousness must be way different than mine. Because the be...

Hi Skepdick, You’re just yanking my chain, now, right? You can easily comprehend tons of stuff that I really need to struggle with, before I can catch up to you. Yet on this pre-school level simple concept, you aren’t yet letting on that you get it. OK, say we make an identical twin of you, in the w...

I have a prediction for you - light with wavelength from 622 to 780 nanometers is what causes my "redness". This is not true (ie falsified), if you splice a red/green inverted into your optic nerve . In that case the strawberry (on the inverted screen of the phone) and the light is green,...

Hi Skepdick, Sorry, I’ve read and reread these posts of yours many times, researched less familiar things like mutual information , slept on it and red them again, but I can’t seem to figure out how you are thinking or what you are getting at, other than maybe you are still misunderstanding much of ...

You've dodged the question. Let me ask again. Given what you understand to be the meaning of the concept of "Qualia" (without you having to accept it as true or valid) Is red one quale and green another quale? Or are they both different qualia of colour? And Those that understand the conc...

I do understand what you are saying. What I am giving you is a list of design errors (flawed assumptions) in your experiment... Yes, you are definitely proving you understand much of what I’m saying. But, remember, what I provided was an extremely simplified summary. The issues you raise, like the ...

You've dodged the question. Let me ask again. Given what you understand to be the meaning of the concept of "Qualia" (without you having to accept it as true or valid) Is red one quale and green another quale? Or are they both different qualia of colour? Hmm, well if you want to be more s...

It sounds like you think of the word ‘consciousness’ as a label for something different than this? Yes, I do. To sum it up in one sentence: People (and really anything else) don't have consciousness, they are consciousness. OK, great, that is what I thought, we are talking about different things. T...

What does "knowledge" look like in the brain? Where are you looking for it? Oh, OK. Good Question. You’re asking about a section of the video we are still working on, which will soon fully answers this question. You can already see most of it, if you know what to look for. And, this infor...

It's not exactly clear how you'd figure out that 495–570 nm light on my retina results in glycine, which results in "green". You simply watch the knowledge that is produced by the brain of someone, while you are showing that person different wavelengths of light. You keep changing the lig...

I asked [AlexW] whether THIS COLOR produces the same experience as THIS COLOR . He informed me that it does, And I informed him that they are, in fact, different colors. By design (they have different digital representation). So I have, in fact invented a new color. It LOOKS like "red" to...

I guess I did miss this. Could you help me out by providing a simple "happy path" example of using an algorithm, instead of just a sentence, and the advantages of such? Sure. Invent consciousness. It sounds to me like you are asking me to "invent" a new color, or something? Mayb...