PHILOS 132 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Color Vision, Burgundy Wine, Qualia
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Qualia are the properties objects are representeds as having. The properties that s representss is in principle knowable by others. Good fakes (poodles) are supposed to cause the same kind of experiences as the originals. None of this implies that the object looks to s1 the way it looks to s2. The possibility of inverted qualia is not foreclosed by these de nitions. Burgundy wine only tastes like burgundy if it can be discriminated from chianti. The inverted spectrum problem is only a problem from those (behaviorists and functionalists) who think the quality of experience must, somehow, be de ned in behavioral or functional terms. Rt concedes that the qualitative character of perceptual experience is not functionally de nable -- it is, however, physically de nable. The identi cation of qualia with the properties that the experience representss things as having. Rt makes qualia as objectively determinable as are the biological functions of bodily organs.
