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>>12508966
>You can perceive me, but you cannot perceive the information contained in me.
>You cannot perceive radio waves, but you can listen to the radio.
I can perceive the information contained in you. The computation going on inside your head can in principle be physically extracted and replicated, although this is not practicable. As for radio waves we perceive them using the instruments we have available to us, and there is no other physically meaningful way to describe perceiving these things. I can in principle augment my body to interpret radio waves into whatever form I desire, like sound, and I can fuck with my current perception of sound as well-- it's all in the physical tuning of physical information, and all physical information can be extracted in this way (in principle). That is the limiting extent to which it is meaningful to describe things like "radio waves" and "the stuff in your head." Anything outside this physical context, things that cannot be represented on a computer, is just meaningless nonsensical gibberish. If you meditate on this long enough, you will agree, I promise.