Why must the dualist accept computationalism is an a priori precondition on the possibility of everything else? Why not just on the possibility of the physical substrate?
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Perhaps minds operate radically differently from the sorts of change we're used to conceiving of?
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Is your argument the following?: 1. Computationalism is a necessary precondition for all change. 2. Minds are systems (or are part of systems) which involve change. 3. Therefore, minds are computational.
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The nature of consciousness or subjective experience is fundamentally different from computation. So even if the universe (being computational) produced something like consciousness it doesn't have to mean consciousness is also computational.
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Yes, that is a powerful intuition. It does not seem that the metacomputational operator you are looking for can be constructed. I think you are just a p-zombie, but the good news is that we can recover the subjective phenomenology of consciousness just fine.
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Replying to @Plinz @ali_talib
How do we recover the subjective phenomenology of consciousness if we're philosophical zombies?
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Replying to @Evollaqi @ali_talib
By reconstructing the machinery of our mind, and checking whether that mind might come up with a fictional narrative of a person that experiences qualia and real-time decision making, and gets access to the language center to tell itself and others about that.
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Replying to @Plinz @ali_talib
How can a computer create qualia, and a "fictional" subject to experience it?
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Replying to @Evollaqi @ali_talib
In pretty much the same way as George R.R. Martin can create Arya Stark and do things to her, including her experience of her environment and inner world. It's a mental simulation.
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Replying to @Plinz @ali_talib
GRR Martin isn't creating qualia or the first person point of view though, he's just describing it
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Yes, but Arya does not know that.
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Replying to @Plinz @ali_talib
There is no Arya which exists, nor any associated qualia - just squiggles on a page. It's not analogous.
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