Talk:Brainstorm machine

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But if, after we hooked up Person A and Person B to the machine and calibrated it, we hooked up Person A and Person C, we might still find a difference and then know different qualia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.66.48 (talk) 15:47, 26 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

The "fidelity" of the machine is the issue here, as there would be no way to validate the accuracy of the machine's depiction in an objective way. Dennett is arguing that, if the machine's image were deliberately altered, Person A would not be able to distinguish the true quale from the distorted one, thus returning us to the original problem the machine was designed to solve.

Spade6179 (talk) 13:35, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

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