Re:Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fer...
by sctb on Sunday October 20, 2024 @02:33PM
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> It feels like the concept of qualia is a last-ditch attempt by humans to make themselves feel special.
I don't think so, I think fundamentally it's just a concept used to express a more generalized form of perception (i.e. not divided into discrete senses, either internal or external). I'm happy to leave it at that, but YMMV.
Re:Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fer...
by n4r9 on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:37AM
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The problem is the idea that no amount of physical information can capture or encode qualia. I think this puts qualia into a different category than other kinds of perception.
I don't think so, I think fundamentally it's just a concept used to express a more generalized form of perception (i.e. not divided into discrete senses, either internal or external). I'm happy to leave it at that, but YMMV.