(October 29, 2013 at 7:03 am)bennyboy Wrote: The qualia idea is the only one that is NOT made up. Every observation we make must be experienced by us before we can encode it into a system of ideas.You make it sound like classification/cataloging of sensations...
(October 29, 2013 at 7:03 am)bennyboy Wrote: All learning, all communication: all qualia. It's just a word for talking about actual experience of things, as opposed to just talking about them.hmmm... The actual experience of things, rather than things themselves...?
The concepts we internally create for things? The catalog?
(October 29, 2013 at 7:03 am)bennyboy Wrote: For example, let's take the lovely smell of roses. If I've never smelled roses, I can still identify brain activity that someone has if they think about roses. I may identify "rose-smelling" neural systems in the brain, and predict people saying "I smell roses" by 0.27 seconds on average when someone else puts the rose in front of their nose. But I won't know what it's like to enjoy the smell of a rose. "What's it like to _______?" Can only be described in subjective terms, and often not even that. What's it like to have an orgasm? What's it like to watch a sunset with a pretty girl? What's it like to eat a cream-filled donut? You can fully describe ALL the physical mechanisms, but you will totally fail to answer these questions. Because they are about qualia, and qualia are intrinsically subjective.Ahh.... I think I'm starting to get it...
qualia is the internal emotional response to any given experience/sensation, is that right?
