From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 16:17:11 MST
> What in the blazes is a "qualia"?
qualia
The intrinsic phenomenal features of subjective consciousness,
or sense data. Thus, qualia include what it is like to see green
grass, to taste salt, to hear birds sing, to have a headache, to
feel pain, etc. Providing an adequate account of qualia is some-
times held to be a difficult problem for functionalist explanations
of mental states.
Also see , Daniel Dennett, David J. Chalmers, and Eric Lormand.
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Robert M. Owen
Director
The Orion Institute
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Brevard, NC 28712-3659 USA
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