>You seem to be implying that for everyone who is not the 1st person subjective experiencer of pain, the only possible representation of that pain is some form of "calculation".
Not exactly. I'm showing the abusrdity of people who think that the brain is just a computer and that its results: "just a number" fly in the face of their reality of experiencing pain. If it's just a number, why don't they slam their hand in the door and show us?
> You seem to further imply that this reduction somehow says something specific about the nature of pain itself. Am I reading this right?
By their own definition, "the nature of pain itself" is just a number, just a result of a huge calculation of trillions of neurons with substantially higher numbers of networks. The terrifying sound, the facial expressions, the visceral "gut-feeling", thats all just pattern recognition (on your behalf), there's nothing more to it than a calculation, right?
> Mutual exclusivity seems misapplied here.
technically correct but only because we could, in theory, both inflict pain on ourselves simultaneously using the doorway.
Not exactly. I'm showing the abusrdity of people who think that the brain is just a computer and that its results: "just a number" fly in the face of their reality of experiencing pain. If it's just a number, why don't they slam their hand in the door and show us?
> You seem to further imply that this reduction somehow says something specific about the nature of pain itself. Am I reading this right?
By their own definition, "the nature of pain itself" is just a number, just a result of a huge calculation of trillions of neurons with substantially higher numbers of networks. The terrifying sound, the facial expressions, the visceral "gut-feeling", thats all just pattern recognition (on your behalf), there's nothing more to it than a calculation, right?
> Mutual exclusivity seems misapplied here.
technically correct but only because we could, in theory, both inflict pain on ourselves simultaneously using the doorway.