I think the confusion about the Hard Problem of Consciousness results from people's intuition that they live in the physical world, not in a software simulation. It is not hard to see how software can represent the illusion of being a person, and how software can move your body.
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I think when Searle wrote this, he really did not understand that his own self is not executing the algorithm, but exists only within the books. I think that he repeated the argument in public lectures in his later years mostly because it represents the core of his brand.
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There are clearly algorithms that can run without generating 1st person phenomenology. What would be minimally be required for a system (hardware/set of algorithms) to generate first person qualia?
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Minimum hardware set to generate a qualia would be a sensor, process, and response to satisfy a driver.
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No, you can build that but it won’t have qualia.
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What work do you suppose it is that quaila do? Why do representations have to feel like anything? Don’t the mechanisms do all the work? That is the hard problem.
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It should be obvious that qualia has a purpose. You are a highly tuned self survival system. Almost nothing about your functioning is purposeless. Your behavior and mental models of the environment are motivated, developed, and guided by behavior driver feelings - qualia.
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psa for English speakers: qualia, phenomena, criteria are plural; the singular is quale, phenomenon and criterion respectively :)
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Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof.
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