qualia

The fact that I have qualia when looking at, for example, the color yellow, is directly knowable by means of just a little introspection.

The problem here is that the so called singularity does not necessarily depend on machines having the so called qualia.

But something beyond that functionality is required to have it experience the qualia of yellowness.

Everything in the spam filter has a specific function for the classification task and has nothing to do with experiencing qualia.

Apparently you can't just ask, since this isn't a valid thing to do with a computer (it's not really experiencing qualia!

The issue is not whether we can prove such a thing, but can we differentiate between different information processing systems in arguments that qualia exist at all.

For me, the question of qualia is a much more interesting argument against materialism.

You might need to train a brain for a long time to develop qualia.

But that simulation still ignores a certain qualia that has grown from our existence.

Nobody says qualia are an illusion, in the sense of not really existing.

We are a long way from that conversationalist, so it's not surprising we have no good understanding of qualia.

My hypothesis is that to create a machine that experiences qualia, we will first understand the mechanism behind our own experience of qualia, and then reproduce that mechanism in a machine.

My bet is that you'll experience that which is referred to in the literature as "qualia".

People just say, "Qualia are not metaphysically spooky and immaterial; they're things your brain makes."

What we shouldn't do, is say humans have qualia and jump to the conclusion that machines can't have qualia, and can't be "aware" in the same sense a human can be.

I'm aware of the term "qualia" but was trying to use the most direct, simple possible language to communicate.

Qualia is one of those topics academics tend to roll their eyes at when it is brought up.

Qualia appear not to derive from pixie dust but accumulated experience in the world.

To the honest Materialists: what's your explanation of Qualia?