/sci/ - Science & Math

Can computers have experiential states?
Is a self-aware robot possible?

I believe most of you on this forum hold some sort of indirect realist position. That is we do not perceive reality directly, we internally represent the external world throughout brain processes.
So for example when we see a red apple, we don't directly see it, we internally represent the red apple through processing retinal information that arises from incoming light photons. This view (indirect realism) is the most compatible with scienctific evidence.
However I believe there is a massive problem with that view and it is as follows:
I see what appears to be a 3D world external to me, but this is mere illusion. The experience of vision (and other senses) is physically located throughout brain processes. But herein lies the problem. The brain is located inside the skull. I can touch my head and say that where I experience vision is physically located inside this head, throughout processes of my brain, which is physically located inside this head I am touching, but the experience of touch too must be physically located inside my head. There is nothing to ground a physical location, because the experience of a head (and subsequently the grounding for a physical location of the brain) is experienced throughout brain processes. So then experience (and the brains they exist throughout) is physically located where? How do materialists address this problem?
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