(January 21, 2019 at 8:20 pm)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
You may well be right. I was being extra careful because small errors tend to get discussions like this one sidetracked.
It's certainly true that all our knowledge that comes from "outside" comes in through qualia. And a lot of people believe “Nothing is found in the intellect which was not first found in the senses.” On the other hand our means of structuring or interpreting may be prior to qualia. I'm thinking of Kantian categories. But I'm not confident of making assertions about this.
