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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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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Replying to @Plinz @ali_talib
Are you saying somewhere there is something with the first person perspective of "Arya", experiencing qualia?
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No, I am saying that your first person perspective is a fiction, too, but like Arya you cannot see that, unless you get some serious write access to your brain.
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Replying to @Plinz @ali_talib
I can't even conceive of what it means to say my qualia isn't actually being experienced, that sounds like a contradiction in terms. Until I understand what could possibly be meant by that I can't accept your position. Is there something out there which *thinks* it is Arya?
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