PHILOS 132 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Osprey, Qualia, Inference
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Definition of qualia, directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness a. i. a. ii. Essential that they are directly apprehensible in consciousness. Just intersubjective reports, so no way to actually tell who"s right. Cannot be described because no component words can be used. Intuition pumps: 9, 10, 11, 14: private b. i. b. ii. Ineffable d. i. d. ii. d. iii. c. d. a. b. Intuition pumps: 13, 15: why dennett is addressing qualia. It is what gets in the way of materialist theories (229) a: so dennett is partly trying to show why materialism is more plausible than dualism, dualism maintains its popularity only in virtue of qualia, dennett"s argument. Intuition pump 1: watching you eat cauliflower a. i. Presumes we can isolate qualia from all the other goings-on. a. ii. A machine does not have qualia, whatever its dispositional, discriminatory, and functional properties. If you have this intuition, this is the sense that dennett is trying to dismantle. b. ii. c.
