RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 21, 2019 at 8:20 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2019 at 8:23 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 21, 2019 at 11:04 am)Belaqua Wrote: Qualia are among the few things we have concrete experience of. Far from being just technical details, the ontological jump from electrochemical events to felt experience is completely unexplained.I wouldn't say a "few things." I'd say that, by definition, qualia are the ONLY things we have any kind of experience of at all. It should be remembered that all of so-called objective science must necessarily be done exclusively through the agency of a subjective experiencer. Literally 100% of everything we believe we know is derived from qualia, and we have access to nothing but qualia by which to derive those ideas which we feel are consistent and coherent enough to be called "knowledge."
And that includes even the arrival at the confident belief in a material monism-- it was done completely through subjective means.
