Can qualia be separated from personhood?

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Tyler MillsOP​·​#4736

(1) During the entire 5 seconds, your mind renders the image of the apple.

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(2) The rendering is caused by the running of some number of programs.

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(3) The programs rendering the apple imagery must be looping until stopped, since they could not have advance knowledge of when the stimulus stops.

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(4) The programs rendering the apple are not people, so cannot themselves constitute experience.

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