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how you get qualia?
Exotic vegetable section on Ocado?
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Somebody has described how you get qualia?
Well, perhaps not thoroughly enough to form instructions to build a ghost in the machine, but I thought Hofstadter gave it a red-hot go in Gödel, Escher, Bach back in the day. As he has it, in a nutshell, awareness is an emergent property of a sufficiently complex system of nested feedback loops. This notion is kind of reinforced by the fact that your thinking becomes more intelligent as you get more self-referential and meta about it; thinking about thinking leads to better thinking.
A heater with a thermostat can be said to have an extremely crude awareness; keep adding layers of feedback enough times and you get a person.
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"complexity theory which describes how you can get emergent phenomena in complex systems when you have the right blend of chaos and order, for instance qualia in your brain."
Somebody has described how you get qualia?