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Is there ANY evidence that "qualia" is a real thing? That sounds like vitalism that was debunked a long time ago.
by loandbehold 3y ago
Is there ANY evidence that "qualia" is a real thing? That sounds like vitalism that was debunked a long time ago.
- nathan_compton 3y agoI have some basic observational evidence that it does exist and presumably you do as well. I do suspect that we are thinking about it in some fundamentally wrong way, but I reserve judgment.
- jakelazaroff 3y agoI mean… you experience stuff, right? "Qualia" is the word for that. We can tweak the definition, but I think it's pretty obvious that "subjective, conscious experience" [1] does in fact exist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia