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Qualia (python port of nyan-sandwich's code: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ehz/the_rawexperience_dogma_dissolving_the_qualia/7fpe)
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qualia = ("red", "blue", "cold", "pleasure") | |
memory_associations = { "red": ("anger", "hot") | |
, "blue": ("cold", "calm") | |
, "pleasure": ("hot", "good") | |
, "cold": ("blue", "calm") | |
} | |
def experience_qualia(in_qual): | |
for q in qualia: | |
if in_qual == q: | |
print "my experience of %s is the same as %s" % (in_qual, q) | |
else: | |
print "%s and %s feel different" % (q, in_qual) | |
print "furthermore, the feeling of %s seems connected to %s" % (in_qual, | |
" and ".join(memory_associations[in_qual])) | |
print "I have no way of reducing these experiences, therefore I exist outside physics" | |
def main(): | |
experience_qualia("red") | |
experience_qualia("blue") | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
main() |
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