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Aug 1, 2016 at 16:14 comment added commando As someone who has studied philosophy of mind closely under multiple figures who work on exactly this issue, I can assure you that's simply false. I can dream about a red apple and be right that I experienced seeing red, while being incorrect that this red corresponds to some physical item. I can also dream about a green apple and (strange as it sounds) believe that I experienced red, in which case I'm simply wrong about my own qualia. We can continue this in chat, if you would like, but this is enough for comments.
Aug 1, 2016 at 16:10 comment added hellyale @commando mistaken qualia and mistaken experiences of qualia are the same thing.
Aug 1, 2016 at 16:09 comment added commando Again, that isn't the point of the question; mistaken qualia are trivial to find. Mistaken experiences of qualia, less so.
Aug 1, 2016 at 16:08 comment added hellyale @commando there is no objective counter part that matches with the qualia of your dreams. Therefor it is mistaken qualia. A table viewed when awake has an object external to us that can be related to the qualia, a dream table does not.
Aug 1, 2016 at 16:05 comment added commando The question is not illusory qualia - it's illusory experiences of qualia. You may have been mistaken that the dream was reality, but you weren't mistaken about having the dream.
Aug 1, 2016 at 16:04 comment added hellyale @nir I had qualia in a dream, i woke up, theq qualia was illusory.
Aug 1, 2016 at 15:44 comment added nir please do try to derive a convincing argument employing dreams because I cannot conceive how such an argument might go
Aug 1, 2016 at 15:14 history answered hellyale CC BY-SA 3.0