Can qualia be separated from personhood?

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Tyler MillsOP​·​#4881
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Assumption A1: Only programs that are people can, while running, constitute qualia/experience/subjectivity/consciousness.

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Tyler MillsOP​·​#5038
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A quale can be recorded and replayed later, arbitrarily many times. That looping program is not a person: it can only create whatever knowledge it originally did, not any possible knowledge, maybe until freed from the loop. Yet it still constitutes experience.
So people are not the only programs that can be qualia.

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Tyler MillsOP​·​#5033

If qualia are only present when new knowledge is being made, then for a quale to be replayed it could be that there must be a reset each time: the knowledge produced from the previous run is erased. So w.r.t. the AGI system alone, new knowledge is being created each time (it doesn't matter if the knowledge is copied from a previous run and stored elsewhere, in which case it is not new w.r.t. that combined system).

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Tyler MillsOP​·​#5036

True, knowledge could be created from each run of a quale, but a looping quale isn't a person, per #5035, so the claim in #5031 that not only people can undergo experience still stands.

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