<div dir="auto">Qualia certainly correlate to physical reality, but declaring causation there seems like a bit of a stretch - at least a begging of the question of materialism.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">it's a very odd sort of causation where the physical properties of the presumptive proximate cause have nothing to do with the characteristics of the caused phenomena.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 1, 2023, 10:46 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 01/05/2023 17:05, Will Steinberg answered:<br>
> It means, I think, "the conformation of physical reality that produces <br>
> the red quale, on the layer of physical reality that is responsible <br>
> for qualia"<br>
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So, a brain?<br>
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A brain is 'Elemental Redness'??<br>
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I'm reading "conformation of physical reality" as meaning "arrangement <br>
of stuff", and "the layer of physical reality that is responsible for <br>
qualia" as "the organisational level of matter that gives rise to <br>
subjective experiences", i.e. (as far as we know) neural circuits, in a <br>
brain.<br>
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I see no reason to use the word 'elemental' for that. In fact it's <br>
wrong. This is far from elemental.<br>
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If I'm on the wrong track (which seems likely), well, I did ask for <br>
"simple terms".<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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