Qualia
Qualia[1] is a term philosophers use for bits of perception or subjective, conscious experience. It is in the field called the philosophy of psychology, or philosophy of mind.[2]
Examples of qualia include the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the perceived redness of an evening sky. It is a separate bit of experience, different from thinking about propositions or stream of consciousness thought.[3]
Daniel Dennett (b. 1942), American philosopher and cognitive scientist, says qualia is "an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us".[4]
Qualia Media
The "redness" of red is a commonly used example of a quale.
inverted qualia of colour.
Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat." (Townsend's big-eared bat pictured).
David Chalmers.Philosopher of mind
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran at the 2011 Time 100 gala.
Daniel Dennett at the 17. Göttinger Literaturherbst, October 19th, 2008, in Göttingen, Germany.
Marvin Minsky was visiting the OLPC offices and picked up a Firefox wrist band.
Michael Tye, at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Arizona
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References
- ↑ singular form: quale
- ↑ Online papers on qualia Archived 2007-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, by various authors, compiled by David Chalmers
- ↑ Kriegel, Uriah 2014. Current controversies in philosophy of mind. New York: Taylor & Francis. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-415-53086-6.
- ↑ "Dennett D. ''Quining Qualia''". Ase.tufts.edu. 1985-11-21. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
