PHIL 2270H Lecture 12: Lecture 12 - Dan Dennett and Qualia
7 Feb 2019
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Qualia don"t exist: qualia are supposed to be special properties, in some hard-to-define way. My claim is that conscious experience has no properties that are special in any of those ways : einstein once advised us that science could not give up the taste of the soup. Yes, if he is taken to have been trying to remind us of the qualia that hide forever from objective science in the subjective inner sancta of our minds. Qualia confusion: we think that we can isolate pure qualia qualia independent of any contextual factors, like what accompanies them, helps cause them, or results from them, ex. We talk about the way juice tastes to dennett , independently of other things he has been eating or drinking: we assume that qualia are special in the following ways, directly apprehensible in consciousness (descartes transparency of the mental) Thought experiments to reveal how confused we are about the concept of qualia.
