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CaregiverMain5074 t1_j1bn6dn wrote

I find that kind of idea fascinating. It’s one motivation for people like Minski, Dennett and Frankish to reject the hard problem of consciousness, right? They don’t believe that we can trust this feeling that we have immediate access to phenomenal properties like ‘qualia’ which are difficult to reconcile with cold hard physicalism.

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shewel_item t1_j1bqp1i wrote

qualia is an underqualified term, just to add

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post_orgasm_mind t1_j1dcvda wrote

Interesting. Why though?

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shewel_item t1_j1fekb3 wrote

it's a tad bit teleological; a 'know it when I see it' thing

or, you could say/argue, there's no concrete taxonomy associated with it

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