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>>1494429t
...later. I gotta sleep!
I got a lot to say about this, though!
**Solipsism, the Chinese Room thought experiment, Philosophical Zombies, qualia and the mind-body problem - those sorts of things are the topic.**
Or as I put it in the comment, "if Downvote were left hanging until death, then what, if anything, would be the next thing she sees?" It's a weird, existential sort of question to ask. Essentially like asking what a blind person "sees". A qualia question. Though in this case even more existential, since at least a blind person is *alive* and present in our currently observable, physical universe.
But not a dead pony.
>>1494429t
...later. I gotta sleep!
I got a lot to say about this, though!
**Solipsism, the Chinese Room thought experiment, Philosophical Zombies, qualia and the mind-body problem - those sorts of things are the topic.**
Or as I put it in the comment, "if Downvote were left hanging until death, then what, if anything, would be the next thing she sees?" It's a weird, existential sort of question to ask. Essentially like asking what a blind person "sees". A qualia question. Though in this case even more existential, since at least a blind person is *alive* and present in our currently observable, physical universe.
But not a dead pony.