(January 14, 2023 at 9:22 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(January 14, 2023 at 7:04 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Some very clever philosophers have made some very clever arguments that qualia either don’t existPrick yourself with a needle
Daniel Dennett:
https://open-mind.net/papers/how-our-bel...-h-bassler
Paul Churchland:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43153848
Gary Drescher
https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/de...ndreal.pdf
There’s plenty more, but those will do to be getting on with.
(As for pricking myself with a needle, that’s better answered by functionalism than by qualia.)
Boru
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