Questions tagged [qualia]
Qualia refers to the phenomenal character of subjective experience.
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The role of qualia in explaining Skinner box experiments
I wonder if this point of view has been considered before and which role it does play in the discussion of consciousness:
Consider a typical Skinner box experiment: A rat is exposed to some pleasant ...
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Are these arguments -- in philosophy of mind?
Do any of these arguments [epiphanies] exist in the philosophy of mind?
Consciousness is a complex structure, and it is unlikely to be realizable in just any structure, else anything big enough would ...
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Do any arguments -- at all-- about qualia work analogously to arguments about causation?
Are there any arguments about qualia that are analogous to those about cause? I'm asking partly because cause and qualia seem they should be hot topics of any philosophy, and partly due to a confused ...
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Is the fact that there are qualia something internal or external?
I'm struggling to digest the SEP article on qualia.
Is anyone saying that there being qualia is something about the world which exists independent of conscious awareness (knowledge and perception)?
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Where is one's "power"?
Where is one's "power", in the Nitezschean sense?
Is it in the body?
Is it a phenomena of conscious: does it depend upon consciousness?
Is it a quale?
It is essentially ones own?
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Why does a philosophical zombie need to have qualia to see colours?
Can a philosophical zombie, who has no qualia, see colours? At least he has eyes to perceive colours, then why does he need to have qualia to see colours?
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Are phenomenological essences experiences that occur in every possible world?
Are phenomenological essences the case in every world? I believe they are a priori, but are they necessary and immutable? A stock example of an essence is the extension of white.
We seem to ...
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Do qualia have Being?
Do qualia have Being?
I'm unsure what 'Being' means, but take it that it has something to do with red always being red, self sameness or identity.
If qualia do have Being, is that itself like ...
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Is consciousness considered a resolved/able problem?
Is the existence of qualia generally considered an unresolved problem by philosophers? Is there a consensus on its nature or whether it can be studied at all?
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Can mind-body dualism be modelled by computer programs and their corresponding logic gates at the physical level?
If we a consider complex computer program (such as an operating system) running on an unknown architecture, then somebody observing the computer program at the logic gate level may be able to gain a ...
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Can an animal have qualia without self awareness?
Can an animal have qualia without self awareness? I understand that many animals are said to have qualia but not self awareness (perhaps not the great apes).
In particular, I'm having a hard time ...
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Scholarly retorts to "Quining Qualia"?
I've been reading and rereading Daniel Dennett's dismissal of qualia, and I have been wanting to see what some of the experts in the field think of his portrayal.
For example, has Nagel, Hoffman, or ...
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What are qualia, the feeling on the skin of heat from a fire, or the fire itself?
What are qualia, the feeling on the skin of heat from a fire, or the fire itself? Or something else?
I'm asking because I'm trying to work out if it makes sense to say that causing a phenomena is ...
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Are thoughts qualia?
There seems to be a very clean distinction between two types of experience: external stimuli, and internal experience.
The external stimuli, in one model, are qualia. Qualia are objects that may be ...
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How do epiphenomenalists make sense of discussions about qualia?
Epiphenomenalists believe that mental events have no causal effect on the physical. They may differ in what they consider "mental events" but it seems all of them would consider qualia / phenomenal ...
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