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A comment on Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology to Physics (1994). Parent comment

Re:Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology t... by goatlover on Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:57PM (#18108659)
> It seems to me that qualia are simply information, or a process performed on information.

Not all information has a subjective component to it, so qualia can't be identical to information, unless one is a panpsychist.

Moreover, information can be seen as an abstraction from experience that humans create via cognition and language. One might respond that all physical processes involve information, but physics is itself an abstraction. It's our attempt to create a map or models of the world. It's not the world itself.

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Re:Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology t... by simonh on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:46AM (#18110951)
>Not all information has a subjective component to it, so qualia can't be identical to information, unless one is a panpsychist.

Doesn't that just make qualia a subset of information, not distinct from it? Even metadata is still just a form of data.

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