Re: qualia, once and for all

From: Metaqualia (metaqualia@mynichi.com)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 00:34:58 MDT


> Furthermore, one should be highly skeptical of anyone claiming qualia can
be
> used as a basis for an objective morality; it is difficult to see where
the
> "Good" or "Evil" (with a capital G and a capital E) is in visions of
> Tesseracts or the redness of red--this smacks me as
> "religious-meme-leftovers" in a new guise.

Some qualia are more charged with good/evil connotations than others. Red or
a cube are neither good nor evil. However, there are a bunch of qualia which
have strong moral value, positive or negative.

mq



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