X-Message-Number: 25098
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:17:55 -0800
Subject: Freezing & Qualia (to Robert)
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Dear Robert:
You wrote:
"This is not correct. There is lots of evidence of freeze-hardiness
of
synapses."
Well, I hope you are right. But I'm glad you're working on
vitrification, all the same.
[snip]
You wrote:
"As for the survival question, the short answer is that it remains
open, and anyone who thinks he knows the answer is kidding himself.
We don't yet know enough about either physics or biology--about the
nature of time and space, and about the anatomy and physiology of
qualia."
Well, I think we can all agree, reversible vitrification preserves
the self. That's a goal I hope CI and Alcor are both working
towards.
You wrote:
"My forthcoming book will have a lot more on this, but a short
version of my tentative suggestion is that there is no 'qualia
experiencer' and this term is not even meaningful. (Cf. the
homunculus problem.) Put another way, the experience and the
experiencer are the same."
I look at my computer screen and see black text on a white
background. Something is seeing white (namely, some part of me).
Whatever that thing is, I call the qualia experiencer. Whether or
not in my brain, the experiencing of white is distinct from the
representation of white, is what you're really getting at. It's
mostly a matter of terminology.
[snip]
Best Regards,
Richard B. R.
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