Re: Re: qualitative recognition

2012-08-14 Thread Roger
- Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-14, 08:05:55 Subject: Re: qualitative recognition I think the "Qualia" is the philosophical term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia Steven Pinker at the end of his book &qu

Re: qualitative recognition

2012-08-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I think the "Qualia" is the philosophical term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia Steven Pinker at the end of his book "how the mind works" recognizes that all the brain functional modules explained in the book say nothing about the qualia. It says that we can not understand this mystery in th

qualitative recognition

2012-08-14 Thread Roger
Hi Brian Tenneson IMHO computers cannot be conscious, or have intuition, since these require the ability to sense and handle qualitative signals-such as seeing colors as colors, not light frequencies- I'm not even sure you could call that information, perhaps recognition would be a better wor