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>It's as if there's someone inside my head that experiences and feels what I physically see. No, you only imagine that. And I'm being serious: people who aren

>It's as if there's someone inside my head that experiences and feels what I physically see. No, you only imagine that. And I'm being serious: people who aren't brought up being told that consciousness is like having a little homunculus in your head simply never feel "as if" there was one. >There are qualia like anxiety or restlessness that are not linked to physical senses, so that's a no on the bijection. I would normally call those emotions rather than qualia. Hmmm. Would you say the "qualia-ness" of things comes from the internal perception that the "feelings" are external to the person who feels, and impinge on them? >Another random thought that I just had: People with depression sometimes hurt themselves physically, because that's the only way they can still feel something (according to them). Maybe this is related to a dampened subjective experience, which allows only extreme inputs to be experienced? But dampened affect (dampened emotional signaling in the brain) is already a known and seemingly somewhat understood symptom of depression.

aninhumer 10y ago
>people who aren't brought up being told that consciousness is like having a little homunculus in your head simply never feel "as if" there was one. So you're saying people brought up differently are p-zombies? Because that's the only way I can interpret that. Feeling like there's a homonculous is fundamentally what experiencing the world is like for me, and has been since long before I was able to understand complex philosophical questions about conciousness.
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago
  >So you're saying people brought up differently are p-zombies? No, I'm saying that people brought up differently actually identify our selves with our actual, physical bodies, and don't imagine/visualize a tiny little figurine in our head. We have a different experience of the world, not no experience. To me it seems weirder to say, "When I get bitten by a dog, the little homunculus gets a loud alarm ringing in his little room saying, 'BITTEN BY DOG!'" than "When I get bitten by a dog, its teeth feel sharp and painful."

aninhumer 10y ago

>people who aren't brought up being told that consciousness is like having a little homunculus in your head simply never feel "as if" there was one. So you're saying people brought up differently are p-zombies? Because that's the only way I can interpret that. Feeling like there's a homonculous is fundamentally what experiencing the world is like for me, and has been since long before I was able to understand complex philosophical questions about conciousness.

eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>So you're saying people brought up differently are p-zombies? No, I'm saying that people brought up differently actually identify our selves with our actual, physical bodies, and don't imagine/visualize a tiny little figurine in our head. We have a different experience of the world, not no experience. To me it seems weirder to say, "When I get bitten by a dog, the little homunculus gets a loud alarm ringing in his little room saying, 'BITTEN BY DOG!'" than "When I get bitten by a dog, its teeth feel sharp and painful."