[ExI] Jason asked me and I cannot do better than the dictionary

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 1:15 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> This fits quite well with a quality being "the standard of something as
> measured against other things of a similar kind". e.g., that orange color
> is slightly more reddish than that other orange color. Such a comparison is
> meaningless when comparing anything else not extant within the color space,
> which also may explain why qualia can't be explained in terms of anything
> else.
>
>
### These types of qualia are the subjective aspect of the functioning of
continuous maps within the brain, such as the chromotopic, tonotopic and
other *topic maps. There are other qualia that are more granular, such as
qualia created by various language networks. And yes, a brain module that
subserves a type of qualia cannot directly communicate all aspects of its
function to other modules that subserve other qualia, so you cannot explain
one type of qualia by reference to other qualia. If you leave connections
between various sensory maps unpruned you end with synesthesia, which is a
nuisance since it degrades the map's discriminating capacity.

Rafal
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