Some people have argued against the possibility of machine consciousness, but none of these objections is conclusive and many theories openly embrace the possibility that phenomenal consciousness could be realized in artificial systems.
The argument that subjective indistinguishability is not transitive derives from the so-called "phenomenal sorites" argument: the possibility that there could be a series of (say) colour samples, arranged in a sequence such that adjacent pairs were subjectively indistinguishable but that the first and last members of the series were distinguishable.
To put the argument in ruthlessly summary form, let V1 and V2 be two possibilities for the phenomenal information that one acquires by, and only by, tasting Vegemite.
"Governor Bush is not going to make a decision without knowing there's a safety net to address the possibility of a phenomenal or catastrophic event, like a new disease or a man-made or natural disaster," Dr. Medows said.
Gold was a tall order - the Koreans are quite simply phenomenal, but silver was a possibility; bronze I'd have settled for.
He does not even mention the possibility that full-blown phenomenal properties might constitute "those regions of the physical universe from which we assume awareness to be absent".
These works truly dance, and offer further proof that Kirchner's phenomenal career is a mine of exhibition possibilities.
According to these philosophers, phenomena are in fact the effects of such things but those things, as trans-phenomenal or noumenal, are wholly different from those phenomena; unlike material things as the permanent possibilities of sensation, they are devoid of sensory or phenomenal characteristics.
Adrian Hernández, who is believed to be in his late 20's, is an intriguing possibility, and appears to be in phenomenal condition.
This seems too much at odds with the phenomenal feel of perception to be a serious possibility.
