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Re:Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reason... by gaganyaan on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:18PM (#41430914)
Well we're not going to convince each other of fundamentally different worldviews over the internet. Until proven otherwise, I think qualia is just a trick smart people play on themselves to convince themselves humans are special because it makes them feel better, and indelibly tied to the concept of a soul and like woo. I'm willing to be proven wrong, and that's what science is for. Hopefully we'll see answers in our lifetimes.
Re:Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reason... by quantadev on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:23AM (#41431247)
I think it takes more "faith" (belief without evidence) to deny the existence of Qualia as being real, than it does to accept that it's real. Of course even the word "real" is problematic because of the simple analogy: "Are Football Stadium waves real, or is it nothing but people's arms moving." Anything that's purely a dynamical set of state changes can be legitimately argued to "not exist".