The difference is that the integrator units respond to patterns of up to 100 maybe even a thousand inputs arriving in up to 50,000 input channels. Those patterns represent dynamic patterns in an outside world that we only know through the inner patterns.
Sounds like this is another area we disagree on. You seem to think the richness, aka qualia, is the result of the complexity of the input signal whereas I think it comes from internal invocation of other circuitries and memories. Computers can have gazillion inputs of all sorts too; it's only a matter of scale.
I am not sure in what sense this would be an illusion.
I'm calling it an illusion in the same way that mirage is a reflection of something rather than something itself. Since qualia is association of the input signal with stored meanings, it's not something by itself.
But that is just metaphor. There are no 'weightings of synapses' in these machines, just routines that generate outputs as if there were, through vastly long winded Turing machine sidestep manoeuvres.
Perhaps you are thinking of lower level of digital logics and computation. In a neural network AI, there is. It's actually called "weight", or w.
This has been a very popular view espoused by people like Daniel Dennett who claimed to be a defender of scientific materialism. Dan got it from Gilbert Ryle in the behaviourist days.
Again, I'm not familiar with them. But maybe great minds think alike!
Is pain just learning? Or is it painful as well? Mine is painful? Why are people with ME/CFS grumbling if pain is just learning. Sounds seriously BPS to me, seriously behaviourist. Maybe I am wasting my time worrying about what PEM is.
Pain is a signal that invokes a region of the brain that responds to that signal to stop you from doing what causes the signal. It may not be a learning but certainly is a programming (that we are born with). Pre-wiring could be considered a learning passed down through genetic memory through evolution. Does that make it a BPS? I don't think so.
Back to the regularly scheduled program of qualia: if the fire alarm goes off because smoke is detected, is it a qualia? Or, are you saying that there is something special about the pain signal that is fundamentally different from fire signal that makes the "experience" rich?
Sadly both Colin and Horace are now gone.
Aww, rest in peace. You will have to do then
