Some people who were born deaf have been given cochlear implants, which give them the ability to hear for the first time <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ6vSn7PaPI>. For them, this is new qualia they've never experienced. But it's only possible because of a technical device interfacing with their living nervous system.
How does your theory account for this, when brains, and cochlear implants, don't really exist? When qualia cannot be understood in terms of neurology? When purely technical devices don't contain that special something that only conscious beings have? What can you say about "systems of consciousnesses" that would help explain how a given person could suddenly be gifted with entirely new qualia? What would prevent us from gaining access to all sorts of new qualia, by inventing neural prosthetics for detecting infrared light, ultrasonic frequencies, the earth's magnetosphere, and so on? Terren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
