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> Why would we ever expect qualia to be based on specific and static combinations of neurons?

I agree. In short, they've discovered that they're measuring the wrong thing. Since we don't understand a lot about the brain, that should be unsurprising.

The same thing happens in computers; in many systems, a specific memory cell at a low-level can be easily remapped to different uses over time.



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