On Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 1:30 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 2:17 PM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > *> We have a vision sense that can know what it is like to see many >> different scenes. Why then, could a Jupiter brain, not have an >> others-mind-sense that can know what it is like to be many different minds?* > > > Because we have no sense that can detect subjectivity in anything except > in ourselves. We could predict that if an ant encounter something very > hot it will quickly withdraw from it, but we have no way of knowing if it > experiences anything like pain. And it makes no difference how many > different facts a Jupiter brain could keep in it's mine at the same time > because it has no access to even one fact about the subjectivity of > others, nor will it ever have one regardless of how smart it gets. > This is only an assumption of yours. How do you know there can't be quale of what it's like to be John just as we have a quale of a pixel of red in our visual field, and for a great enough mind to be able to survey a landscape of such mind-qulia? Jason > John K Clark > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1JB%3DODhkvyKujkvzmHGZEYCvpy3LJq5eV%3Djhuge7xAbA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1JB%3DODhkvyKujkvzmHGZEYCvpy3LJq5eV%3Djhuge7xAbA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUjc8zWBZqdY9g-vgw2gkSBeVD7cNJLNTvp450tTaepNTQ%40mail.gmail.com.
