If it exists, it is what separates conscious beings from Turing Machines. "The concept of a Turing machine has played an important role in the recent philosophy of mind. The suggestion has been made that mental states just are functional states of a probabilistic automaton, in which binary inputs and outputs have been replaced by sensory inputs and motor outputs. This idea underlies the theory of mind known as "machine functionalism". " (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/) qualia = Conscious experience http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/qualia.html or http://members.aol.com/lshauser/zomboid.html > > > OK, someone explain "qualia" to me.. > > > <A HREF="http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/goldman.html"; > > TARGET="_new"><FONT > > COLOR="BLUE">http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/goldman.html</FONT></A> > >-- > > > -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://webmail.earthlink.net