> On 14 Apr 2021, at 20:41, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > On 4/14/2021 3:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 11 Apr 2021, at 20:55, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> <everything-list@googlegroups.com >>> <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>> wrote: >>> >>> That would be of some interest but I think it would fail to communicate >>> what it is like to be a bat because of the inability to act as a bat. I'm >>> not sure your brain could learn to interpret visual input if it were not >>> able to correlate it with touch and movement. >> >> Added to this is the problem that we cannot know the mechanist substation >> level. Some would be OK to simulate only the bat neuronal system; some would >> say that we have to simulate also the glial cells, some would ask for the >> simulation of the microtubules, etc. >> >> Even one bat cannot know how it feels to be a different bat. > > I would agree if you mean "know with certainty”.
You are right. I should have made clear, like I just did actually, that the notion of “knowing” was “knowing for sure”. It is more []p & <>t & p than []p & p, although even " []p & <>t & p” might not yet capture completely the “for dure” components. > But clearly we have pretty good ideas about how other people feel simply by > projecting our own feelings while imagining their situation. OK. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9f4dffa0-5b96-9bad-18f5-480205eabbcf%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9f4dffa0-5b96-9bad-18f5-480205eabbcf%40verizon.net?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/41F133F0-0AA6-4508-B2FB-BBA22DC515B5%40ulb.ac.be.
