Questions tagged [qualia]
Qualia refers to the phenomenal character of subjective experience.
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Could the Qualia of differring subjective impressions be compared?
Suppose some time in the future Humanity is able to map and mind-upload Human Brains, and that advances in AI had progressed to the point where it could be used to "experience subjectivity", ...
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Dennett's claims on Qualia (based upon Sweet Dreams)
Dennett claims qualia is a faux pas, a logical fallacy, held by the philosophical community, but this is based upon specific sources that remove some "qualities" of qualia. For instance, not all ...
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Where is one's "power"?
Where is one's "power", in the Nitezschean sense?
Is it in the body?
Is it a phenomena of conscious: does it depend upon consciousness?
Is it a quale?
It is essentially ones own?
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Inverted spatial qualia: a detectable example?
The SEP article on inverted qualia discusses this mostly as follows:
One of [Frege's] theses in The Foundations of Arithmetic is that arithmetic is “objective”, which he explains as follows:
What is ...
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What if vagueness were non-conceptual?
Thus the classical picture, informed by a connection between concepts and sets present in the very word “classify”, sees the theoretical resources of set theory as the proper instruments for ...
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Is the fact that there are qualia something internal or external?
I'm struggling to digest the SEP article on qualia.
Is anyone saying that there being qualia is something about the world which exists independent of conscious awareness (knowledge and perception)?
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Do qualia have Being?
Do qualia have Being?
I'm unsure what 'Being' means, but take it that it has something to do with red always being red, self sameness or identity.
If qualia do have Being, is that itself like ...
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Scholarly retorts to "Quining Qualia"?
I've been reading and rereading Daniel Dennett's dismissal of qualia, and I have been wanting to see what some of the experts in the field think of his portrayal.
For example, has Nagel, Hoffman, or ...
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Every experience is a new qualia? In reference to Dennett and RoboMary
Preliminary: RoboMary is a robot, but so are we - large robots made of smaller robots made of smaller robots. She does not yet have the experience of color. Dennett puts forth a physicalist way for ...
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Is functionalism a significant improvement on behaviourism with respect to behaviour?
Functionalism appears to be free of many of the issues that behaviourism faces, however is it all positive? Is there any objection at all to Functionalism being such an improvement in respect to ...
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A possibly valid argument against eliminativism
I'm posting this despite the fact that I've little or no knowledge in metaphysics. The eliminativists claim that phenomenal consciousness is not "real". Would it help if we notice that phenomenal ...
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Senses without phenomenology: are they quales?
Can there be sense experience without phenomenological existence, in the Husserlian sense of the things themselves being given to consciousness?
Are they like something? Just as the smell of mint has ...
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Do any arguments -- at all-- about qualia work analogously to arguments about causation?
Are there any arguments about qualia that are analogous to those about cause? I'm asking partly because cause and qualia seem they should be hot topics of any philosophy, and partly due to a confused ...
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