[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.

[Acy Stapp]

On 12/1/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think it's true that qualia are in some sense abstractions or mental
> constructs (after all, what else could they possibly be?), but I wonder if
> they have objective reality in a rational or Platonic sense, in the way
> that numbers seem to. If so then perhaps they *are* communicable, similar
> to the way 1+1=2 is communicable.
>
> -gts
>

That's the whole gist of the entire discussion, isn't it? But qualia
are the essence, the atoms of subjectivity. They only make sense in
the context of the perceiver as a relationship between a mind and a
percept. It's like asking what my marriage would be like if my wife
and I were two different people and we lived in Borneo.

Acy
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