The J-space paper is just about conscious access right? Not phenomenal consciousness, surely. Well, not section 3.5.3! "We find that the ablation reduces the rate of experiential, sensory language and produces a more mechanical, detached register." Just read these examples
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I'll be giving a talk on the J-space paper next Monday night (20th) in SF. Focus is on understanding the techniques. DM me if you wanna go. Too afraid to make it open invite, this is consciousness-adjacent after all...
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"if we suppress internal states that correlate with hi probability of [subjectively defined, arbitrarily selected token-patterns] we get output which does not include token-patterns from [subjectively defined, arbitrarily selected token-patterns]." This is literally (literally
Hmmm
If functionalism is true, how to construe as not evidence for phenomenal consciousness?
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