"It's the immediate (no intermediary) subjective happenings of your conscious mind."
Circular definition, doesn't work.
So it is neurons firing, fine. I just don't know why we need entire research departments and conferences for that.
Or do you mean it is creating a model of the perceived world? Computers can do that without a problem (quality of the model is a different matter).
Does it puzzle people in the same way how computer chips can process information? Why not? (I am not talking about algorithms or electronics - those are interesting)
Thanks for the link, but in my opinion, he is just chasing a chimera. At least he mentions the easy problems, and they are menaingful in my opinion. I have no problem if people invest their time in trying to create artificial intelligence. Those are well posed problems, like "create a chat bot i can have a meaningful conversation with". The "experiencing state" in my opinion is rubbish, it's nothing. As was written in the other thread, "how can physics explain the sensation of eating a strawberry". I think that it is essentially just like this: if(isEatingStrawberry()){ taste = strawberryTaste} (with more associations etc., but there is nothing special about it that lies outside the realm of physics).
Circular definition, doesn't work.
So it is neurons firing, fine. I just don't know why we need entire research departments and conferences for that.
Or do you mean it is creating a model of the perceived world? Computers can do that without a problem (quality of the model is a different matter).
Does it puzzle people in the same way how computer chips can process information? Why not? (I am not talking about algorithms or electronics - those are interesting)