RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 26, 2014 at 7:16 pm
(May 26, 2014 at 7:05 pm)bennyboy Wrote:Qualia seems to be a lot of stuff which can be bundled together under the definition "the ways things seem to us".(May 26, 2014 at 6:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: What do you mean by "universal", here?I mean not specific to brains.
re: scientific studies
I don't think we're on the same page. I'm not talking about the content of mind, which is clearly affected by brain chemistry or the contributions of brain parts. I'm talking about the existence, rather than the non-existence, of qualia. Specifically, WHAT properties of the brain allow/require the supervenience of qualia?
If we can agree to use this simplistic definition, then drugs acting on the brain DO cause a difference in perception and, thus, a difference in the way things seem to us.
From this, we can see that chemistry seems to play a part in qualia.
But yeah... we've seen before (a long time ago) that we don't see eye to eye on this subject... why rehash it?