All systems which process information can be said to have a first person perspective.[3]
The footnote...
As a brain can sense its own thoughts but cannot sense the neurons through which those thoughts exists, a CPU can sense ones and zeros but not the electrons and silicon through which those exist, et cetera. I haven’t yet written up my personal argument for this common yet controversial belief.
...only shows that they have a blind spot about their own functioning. It would perfectly possible too infer a software systems view of its functioning from a description of its hardware, but that is much more doubtful when inferring conscious experience from neural firings, as in Mary’s Room.
The footnote...
...only shows that they have a blind spot about their own functioning. It would perfectly possible too infer a software systems view of its functioning from a description of its hardware, but that is much more doubtful when inferring conscious experience from neural firings, as in Mary’s Room.