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 (born 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
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The "redness" of red is an example of a quale.
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inverted qualia of colour.
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In the "fading qualia" and "dancing qualia" brain replacement thought experiments, Chalmers starts by supposing that qualia depend on the substrate (e.g. that the silicon-based equivalent experiences different qualia or no qualia). He then argues that the subject's inability to notice any change creates a contradiction.
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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).
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran at the 2011 Time 100 gala.
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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.
Una foto que hice de Rorty
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Michael Tye, at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Arizona
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.
