I tend to think that qualia are bound together when they causally act as one. So if left and right are highly integrated (act as one), they aren’t separate experiences. So here I agree with IIT.
Ah, this story is great. In general Egan’s stuff is awesome. If I remember correctly the story was more about personhood (the memories and dispositions etc.) rather than separate experiences (which would require some processes to run separately in parallel). I think it’s an important distinction to make, as experience is fundamentally real, while personhood (or “continuous self”) is more of a thing we assign to systems—a useful fiction (just like money, or democracy is a useful fiction).
There is also a feeling of being yourself, but that’s a different thing than pure experience, and different than assigned personhood. For example there are cases (meditation and psychedelic trips) when the feeling of being someone disappears, but experience remains.
I like that soul swapping argument :D
In the case of split brain, both of the experiences would feel to be me.
I tend to think that qualia are bound together when they causally act as one. So if left and right are highly integrated (act as one), they aren’t separate experiences. So here I agree with IIT.
Ah, this story is great. In general Egan’s stuff is awesome. If I remember correctly the story was more about personhood (the memories and dispositions etc.) rather than separate experiences (which would require some processes to run separately in parallel). I think it’s an important distinction to make, as experience is fundamentally real, while personhood (or “continuous self”) is more of a thing we assign to systems—a useful fiction (just like money, or democracy is a useful fiction).
There is also a feeling of being yourself, but that’s a different thing than pure experience, and different than assigned personhood. For example there are cases (meditation and psychedelic trips) when the feeling of being someone disappears, but experience remains.
I like that soul swapping argument :D
In the case of split brain, both of the experiences would feel to be me.