[extropy-chat] effing

[Acy Stapp]

On 12/2/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Qualia (what Locke calls secondary qualities) seem to be powers of the
> objects of our observation. Although not primary qualities of objects,
> they are derived from those real primary qualities. For our purposes here
> I would really like to call these secondary qualities "phenomenal
> properties", or even better, "phenomenal powers" of objects, and say that
> they exist in some real sense.
>
>
> -gts
>

Nope. Qualia are qualities of the observational interaction between
the observer and the observed. They may or may not exist in some real
sense but they certainly are not properties of the objects themselves.

Acy

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