dualism

dualism may actually be the most widely held philosophy of mind in the population at large - The rise of machine consciousness: Studying consciousness with computational models [pdf] by James A. Reggia

see the first paragraphs of 3. Past work on artificial consciousness on parsimony principle.

3.3.1. Overview
The key idea is that our mind includes a self-model that is supported by neural activation patterns in the brain. ... Building on these and similar philosophical arguments и далее со всеми остановками.

see i told ya

In this context, qualia are defined to be what virtual machines ‘‘refer to when referring to the objects of internal self observation’’ (Sloman & Chrisley, 2003). In other words, qualia are viewed as being a side-effect

курсив мой - вс

эпифеномен, короче, эти ваши qualia. и далее - самое смешное:

These investigators recognize that many people would object to this characterization of qualia because it fails to address the hard problem of consciousness. Their response to this is ‘‘the fact that many people do think like this is part of what needs to be explained by any theory of consciousness’’ (Virtual Machines and Consciousness, Sloman & Chrisley, 2003) / pdf