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Qualia are one class.
by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Qualia are one class.
- kiba 7y agoI am content with trying to grasp with it and never quite coming to an answer. These stuff can be answered with "I don't know" or "I don't know, but this is my best guess".
- wellpast 7y agoOr you could write narratives and koans and poems that explore it and assist in exploring it to its depths. Or -- better -- read the ancient and long-evolved, long-refined attempts at this. Why limit exploration to the narrow (and yet highly valuable at times) domain of Science.
- StanislavPetrov 7y agoIts fine to write fairy tales and works of fiction, but its quite another to do so in a attempt to explain objective reality. There is great value in being able to admit to yourself, and to others, that you "don't know" without any shame in doing so.
- dragonwriter 7y agoQualia are the only class of things which both can be experienced by an individual (and thus reasonably be said to exist, at least by that individual) but also be ineffable. If there are other ineffable things which exist, we cannot ever know about them.
- gus_massa 7y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia > Much of the debate over their importance hinges on the definition of the term, and various philosophers emphasize or deny the existence of certain features of qualia. Consequently, the nature and existence of various definitions of qualia remain controversial because they are not verifiable.