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Knowing qualia: reloading the displaced perception model

open access: yesHumanities & 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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The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Qualia-Structure of German From-Ethnonymic Adjectives (based on deutsch Lexeme)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2023
The article is devoted to revealing the hidden meanings of the from-ethnonymic adjective deutsch, which are not recorded in modern German lexicographic sources as separate meanings.
V. M. Glushak, K. V. Shevyakova
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Emergence Of Consciousness And Qualia From A Complex Brain

open access: yesFolia Medica, 2014
Qualia are private conscious experiences of which the associated feelings can be reported to other people. Whether qualia are amenable to scientific exploration has often been questioned, which is challenged by the present article.
Korf Jakob
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The “Slicing Problem” for Computational Theories of Consciousness

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2022
The “Slicing Problem” is a thought experiment that raises questions for substrate-neutral computational theories of consciousness, including those that specify a certain causal structure for the computation like Integrated Information Theory. The thought
Gómez-Emilsson Andrés, Percy Chris
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Competitive Coherence Generates Qualia in Bacteria and Other Living Systems

open access: yesBiology, 2021
The relevance of bacteria to subjective experiences or qualia is underappreciated. Here, I make four proposals. Firstly, living systems traverse sequences of active states that determine their behaviour; these states result from competitive coherence ...
Vic Norris
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James’ “Fringe” and “Qualia of Meaning”: A Proposal

open access: yesPhenomenology and Mind, 2017
Many philosophers have made the distinction between two phenomenological aspects of consciousness, namely, the partition between clear and distinct contents/vague and peripheral feeling.
Andrea Lavazza
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Looking for effects of qualia on event-related brain potentials of close others in search for a cause of the similarity of qualia assumed across individuals [version 3; referees: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2018
Qualia, the individual instances of subjective conscious experience, are private events. However, in everyday life, we assume qualia of others and their perceptual worlds, to be similar to ours.
Sheila Bouten   +2 more
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The Qualities of Qualia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This essay is a defence of the traditional notion of qualia - as properties of consciousness that are ineffable, intrinsic, private and immediately apprehensible - against the eliminative attempts of Daniel Dennett in the influential article "Quining ...
de Leon, David
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A Systemic Reflection On Why Biology Is Best : E(s) ∞$$ \infty $$ mc2 Sentience, Consciousness and Transcendance?

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
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