(March 24, 2018 at 9:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 23, 2018 at 6:00 am)Mathilda Wrote: And using your method you'll never define what qualia is, what it isn't, how to recognise it or whether it even exists. Do you honestly believe that just by reasoning about these things without performing studies and experiments that you and your ilk will ever make any progress to the point where the majority will largely agree?
If pragmatism is truth, then you're right. But it isn't, and you're not.
I can definitely define what qualia is [sic]. It's the experience of what things are like, including the existence of the self. That you can't hit it with a hammer and therefore want to discard it from any intellectual consideration is your problem, not a problem with philosophy.
And how is a quale NOT a form of information processing? How is it any different than any other sensory input?
So, does a thermometer 'experience' the temperature? Why or why not?
