> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Mahoney via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> > > You didn't answer my question. What is qualia? How do I know if monkeys, > fish, insects, human embryos, robots, or thermostats have qualia and how > would they behave differently if they did or did not. What is the test? >
Qualia = Compressed impressed samples symbolized for communication. How do you even know that a fish is a fish? How do you prove that it exists? By using qualia, and something with qualia originally symbolized it for transmission into the human general consciousness. Do fish have qualia? Ans.: Do they communicate? Does a fish know that another fish is a fish? I think so. They use another type of signaling and alphabet than humans but their multi-agent signaling is coherent in relation to the species group. If they did not have qualia the fish group would show incoherence. You're more asking if you take a fish and isolate it how do you know if it has qualia. I would ask you, if you are given a single lossily compressed sample of sensory input how do you that the original uncompressed sample exists (or existed)? How do you prove it? Maybe there is no original. Maybe it doesn't exist therefore qualia would not exist. John ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T9c94dabb0436859d-Mdb94ec0341f17801ff178813 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
