One of my favorite bits from this is actually a footnote:
"It is not analyzable in terms of any explanatory
system of functional states, or intentional states, since these could
be ascribed to robots or automata that behaved like people though
they experienced nothing.2
"2 Perhaps there could not actually be such robots. Perhaps anything complex
enough to behave like a person would have experiences. But that, if true, is a
fact which cannot be discovered merely by analyzing the concept of experience."
"It is not analyzable in terms of any explanatory system of functional states, or intentional states, since these could be ascribed to robots or automata that behaved like people though they experienced nothing.2
"2 Perhaps there could not actually be such robots. Perhaps anything complex enough to behave like a person would have experiences. But that, if true, is a fact which cannot be discovered merely by analyzing the concept of experience."