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Originally Posted by Robert This thread of assimilation started by Robert.
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A Definition - Qualia are those subjective experiences what we experience in our mind; qualitative properties of our mental states such as sensations and emotions. These are things that we know to be true because we feel them inside of us, like anger, pain, the color red, yet these mental states are unknowable unless they can be directly experienced. They cannot be accurately described to another person unless that person can directly experience the sensation.
Does qualia exist? If not, how does the brain create the illusion of qualia?
Here's the Wikipedia link on Qualia.
Here's the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Qualia.
Ok, that's my kickoff. Add your thoughts, ideas, questions, etc and they will be assimilated!
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After reading some of the definitions of Qualia I realise that it is trying to cater for many things and yet come up with only one understanding.
A perfect example of what I am talking about is the word "Transport". The word transport can cover many things from land based to water based to air based and so on.
I think Qualia operates on the same principle.
Emotions are the thoughts we created as a child to manipulate our environment to get what we want. Most people just forgot that by the time they grew up into an adult. And now most people let their emotions control their lives.
The secret to being happy is to be happy. It is just a decision. And each and every one of us has the power of that choice.
Feelings are not emotions. Feelings are incoming (what we experience with our senses) and Emotions are outgoing ( the thoughts we create in our mind to describe to others what we are experiencing.)
Colour on the other hand is a vibrational reference to our inner senses because colour is not real. Colour is put in somewhere between the outer eye and the cortex of the brain. Just like sound waves. And our responses to colour are based entirely on what we learned as a child.
I remember one experiment back in the 1970's on colour that got 100 people to come and stay for a week-end and all they had to do was to eat what they were given and then they would each receive $50 cash. At the end of the experiment, only a few people collected the money. Because most people had a problem with bright blue steak, purple peas, pink cauliflower and so on. Most people who forced the food down brought it right back up again. Even though there was nothing wrong with the food.
And the conclusions that the scientists came up with after the experiment was that the only people who didn't have a problem with coloured food were the ones who had no previous bad experiences with colour.
Pain is something else again. Pain is what our body uses to tell our brain that something is wrong with our body and then the brain sets about doing what it does to fix the problem.
If all of these things make up Qualia, then I think we will need to break it up into more words (sub-headings) to separate for individual definition.
cheers David
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