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		hoseja on Aug 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural ... I don't think we have the faintest clue what subjective experience of self (whatever you call it, qualia?) actually is, to be able to say it isn't artificially reproducible.

raducu on Aug 13, 2021 [–]

We know that computers are absolutely not the kind of machinery to produce sensations.

We know non-biological organisms don't produce qualia.

We know it involves chemical reactions, because we can change qualia with drugs.

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