But, if we programmed a robot (or trained a neural net) to feel non-painful pain, would it develop it's own qualia for pain?
more information is needed on how the brain works. Are the conscious portions of the brain conscious as the result of some fundamental physical property of the world or are they the result of some form of either information processing or a kind of information storage or a combination of both(some particular storage solution combined with a specific form of information processing)?
We know that digitally practically any stimuli that can produce vision or audio can be encoded and stored in a computer. Fear, love, smell, taste, etc it's really quite conceivable and likely that such, the patterns on the sensory organs, could be also encoded digitally. Things like the retina follow certain rules, certain algorithms, to process the stimuli, it appears the same happens in the early visual cortex. Does the brain tap into some resource that adds a fundamentally different property to originally digital information that was fed into its sensory organs? Or is it some kind of transformation from a digital state to another digital state?
If it is digital to digital, if it were somehow shown, it would fundamentally shatter morality and ethics. Good and evil would be but fictions of the human mind, like free will nonexistent and nonsensical. It would also in some sense destroy many religions, for without a greater good, the very definition of good attributed to god of some of the top religions would simply disappear.-link
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