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Re:Toward a Mature Science of Consciousness by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:02PM (#17402268)
It's the difference between watching audio waveforms on an oscilloscope and listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. These are not equivalent experiences, no matter how accurately the oscilloscope reproduces the waveform.
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Re:Toward a Mature Science of Consciousness by AstralStorm on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:55PM (#17402689)
I'd call it waxing poetic. How do you know if your senses and modeling is not actually getting the data for the symphony from advanced oscilloscope?

Good old brain-in-a-jar experiment applies.

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