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Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022 Accounting for qualia in the natural world is a difficult business, and it is worth understanding why. A close examination of several theories of mind—Behaviorism, Identity Theory, Functionalism, and Integrated Information Theory—will be discussed ...
Paul Skokowski, Paul Skokowski
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Current Biology, 2012 SummaryPerhaps the most difficult biological question of all might be how and why electrochemical neuronal activity in the brain generates subjective conscious experience such as the redness of red or the painfulness of pain. Neuroscientists track how light impinging on the retina is transformed into electrical pulses (neuronal spikes), relayed through
Kanai, Ryota, Tsuchiya, Naotsugu
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Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 Hill (2014) argues that perceptual qualia, i.e. the ways in which things look from a viewpoint, are physical properties of objects. They are relational in nature, that is, they are functions of objects’ intrinsic properties, viewpoints, and observers ...
Alessandra Buccella
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Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia
, 1995 In this paper I use thought-experiments to argue that functional organization fully determines conscious experience. These thought-experiments involve the gradual replacement of neurons by silicon chips, and similar scenarios. I argue that if "absent qualia" or "inverted qualia", are possible, then phenomena I call "fading qualia" and "dancing qualia ...
Chalmers, David J.
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Shoemaker’s moderate qualia realism and the transparency of qualia [PDF]
Disputatio, 2007 Abstract Qualia realists hold that experience’s phenomenal character is a non-representational property of experience, what they call qualia . Representationalists hold that phenomenal character is a representational property of experience — there are no qualia (in this ...
Smith, Renée J.
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Non-eliminative reductionism : the basis of a science of conscious experience? [PDF]
, 2010 A coherent physicalist view of the nature of qualia labelled non-eliminative reductionism is outlined. If it is true, qualia and physicalism can co-exist without difficulty.
Nicholson, Dennis
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Los Qualia y la Experiencia de la Consciencia en el Arte
BRAC, 2021 Nuestra vida estaría rodeada por una propiedad universal llamada qualia que constituiría las cualidades cotidianas de la existencia que abarcaría entre otras cosas nuestras sensaciones, percepciones, sentimientos e intuiciones de manera que ...
Belén León-Río
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionWellbeing policy analysis is often criticized for requiring a cardinal interpretation of measurement scales, such as ranking happiness on an integer scale from 0-10.
Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, Chris Percy
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Knowing qualia: reloading the displaced perception model
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020 How does one know the phenomenal character of one’s own experience? I aim to present and defend a new view of the epistemology of qualia that addresses this issue. My view results from a reworking of Dretske’s displaced perception model. The guiding line
Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira
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