Masataka Watanabe

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A thought experiment inspired by Chalmers' “Fading Qualia”. What manipulations to the neural circuitry demolishes consciousness?

Instead of gradually replacing biological neurons with silicon neurons as in Chalmers' Fading Qualia, I attempt to gradually replace dividable functions of biological neurons with silicon...

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How can we test machine consciousness? How can we test various theories of consciousness?

What are the existing tests for machine consciousness that directly tests qualia generated in a device? I find many proposals, but they only seem to test functional aspects of consciousness...

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Are high-level visual areas sufficient for conscious vision? How does subjective vision gain holistic access to spatially distributed neural codes?

I have a thought experiment (video link: "Paradox of Subjective Bilateral Vision"16:00-28:00) that results in very strange situations if "high-level visual areas themselves are not sufficient for...

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