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Qualia refers to the phenomenal character of subjective experience.

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I need to make it clear what I mean by "explanation systems". I mean any system of thought that can make reasonably accurate predictions about a phenomenon. To illustrate, I can think of two:...
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I'm wondering if there have been any studies exploring Qualia through altered mind states (like dreaming). From my own experience: lucid dreams: I definitely experience qualia in dreams. Color, ...
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Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H2O. It is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance. It is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, ...
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I’ve been thinking about this ever since I answered a related question on this site. It seems to me that all words must be grounded in something, some kind of experience, either internal or external. ...
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I read that several philosophers like Galileo and Locke have made this distinction which says that colors are only there in the mind, while properties like shapes/solidity are really out there as ...
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This is really reaching but imagine you could take all the conscious memories and experiences of all humans starting from Cro-Magnan and Neanderthal minds and then every modern human up until now and ...
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Frank Jackson’s classic thought-experiment runs like this: Mary is the world’s leading expert on the neurophysiology of vision, yet she has lived her entire life in a black-and-white room. Inside that ...
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When Daniel Dennett denies qualia in his book Consciousness Explained, after the thought experiment of "feeding your visual experience into my brain via a cable," he reasons as follows: &...
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Under aesthetic realism, one might posit that some objects are beautiful, not merely because they're perceived as such by someone, but in an absolute sense, by virtue of exhibiting or possessing some ...
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I see claims that qualia are evidence against physicalism, and I've never understood why. If the brain is capable of thought at all -- which is a premise of physicalism -- I see no reason why ...
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I'd like to talk a bit about the mind-body problem. We all know that intuitive dualism (Cartesian-style or its variations, aka "soul") is being firmly rejected by the academia on the ground ...
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Qualia is said to be a counterargument to the pure physicalist worldview: even though I can perfectly see everyone else as pure philosophical zombies with smart neuron systems, I, the one writing this ...
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How do the ontological nature of qualia challenge our epistemological understanding of consciousness, and can we ever truly know the subjective experiences of others?
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Is the color blue “really there”, or is it a composite phenomenon of other things which the brain melds into a seemingly unitary phenomenon? When I think of the word “similar”, I have the sensation of ...
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Consciousness can perceive qualia, such as the "redness of red." But is there a specific quale for time? One might argue that we know time is real because we are conscious of our memories of ...
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