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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 co
by sctb 2y ago
> 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.
- n4r9 2y agoThe 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.